Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...

I couldn’t help but wondering whether the scheduling last week of two recent productions at the Vienna State Opera, Claus Guth’s TURANDOT and Cyril Teste’s SALOME, on subsequent nights had anything ...

The new production in Wrocław looks nothing like what you think opera looks like. Let me explain — and I promise that by the end of this text, you’ll be buying a ticket. 1. Not drawn to the classical ...

Voigt and Grimsley in ‘Salome,’ Photos by Karen Almond, Dallas Opera. The Dallas Opera’s second title of the season is the outrageous Salome. Perhaps the most depraved plot in all opera — and that’s ...

Across the centuries, the story of Salome has been staged, scored, adapted, pushed and pulled in a welter of ways, always finding new ways to shock. On Sunday, the curtain went up on Richard Strauss’s ...

The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden opened its fourth revival of David McVicar’s famous 2008 production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” one day after the death of the Queen of England in 2022 ...

One of the biggest challenges opera companies face is balancing their audiences’ unquenchable thirst for seeing the same dozen or so classic works with the need to present less-known and newer works ...

In league with Hartmut Haenchen's pacy conducting she makes you think first, what an incredible score, and only then, what a brilliant production. As with ENO's Tosca, you can't ask for more than that ...

To say that Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is your favorite opera is a bit like saying that “The Shining” is your favorite film or that Edgar Allan Poe is your favorite author: it marks you as something ...