A quarter of a century ago, the directors of the Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Company announced that Richard Strauss’ ...

In 1926, the historian Beth Zion (Roochel) Lask, author of The Jews in England: A History For Young People read an essay ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to ...

Mantua's court hosts Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo, the earliest opera still performed today. Boasting a large orchestra it is one of the earliest to specify instrumentation, including three organs, ...

(CNN) — The city of Paris has announced a lottery with a twist: Instead of a cash prize, entrants can instead win the chance to be buried in one of the French capital’s most celebrated cemeteries. The ...

Initially published as a famously censored novella for Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in June 1890, Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” explores persuasion and corruption, sexual identity, ...

Salome has weakened into a tropical depression but Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal (TCWS) No. 1 remains in three areas, according to state weather bureau PAGASA on Thursday. In its 8 a.m. bulletin, ...

Tropical cyclone Salome is now a tropical storm, PAGASA said in its 2 a.m. Thursday bulletin. At 1 a.m., Salome was located over the coastal waters of Basco, Batanes, carrying maximum sustained winds ...

Manila: Tropical Depression Salome could intensify into a tropical storm, raising the possibility of Signal No. 2 in affected areas like Batanes, weathermen warned. Also In This Package Storm kills 10 ...

MANILA, Philippines — A low pressure area (LPA) off Batanes has a high chance to become a tropical depression to be named ‘Salome,’ the 19th cyclone in the country in 2025, the state weather agency ...

We commemorate the birthday of the renowned gay Irish writer Oscar Wilde with an excerpt from the play he was writing in October, 1891 — a scene from a production directed for Pacifica Radio by a “pre ...