Soprano Jennifer Holloway takes on one of opera’s most demanding finales in “Ah! Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst” from Richard ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history. Manon Fleur Antonio and ...

MONTREAL — Richard Strauss' “Salomé” may be most notorious for its “Dance of the Seven Veils” or Salomé's erotic embrace with the head of John the Baptist, but the composer's rich setting of Oscar ...

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 ...

2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera Richard Strauss’s eerie and perverse Salome is based on ...

Richard Strauss’s “Salome” has been described by opera singers, conductors, critics and fans as one of the world’s most thrilling, fast-paced and visceral works in the repertoire. And yet, the ...

Almost everyone in Salome wants something they shouldn’t. A king desires his stepdaughter, a servant desires a princess and a princess desires a prisoner with equal parts fascination and repulsion. We ...

Staged in deepest black and dingy white, Guth’s production is unapologetic in its symbolism. It opens on a girl playing with a doll in relative silence. She breaks off its arms moments before that ...

McVicar sets the action in a concrete basement beneath a banqueting hall (set designer Es Devlin, revival director Bárbara Lluch). Most of the men are in early 20th century military uniform, and most ...

Of the six operas that comprise San Francisco Opera's fall 2009 season, Richard Strauss' Salomé is the outlier — a production that, by design, represents something of a departure from the musical and ...

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 ...

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