The tale of Salome, the Judean princess who demanded the head of John the Baptist from her stepfather, King Herod, is well-known, not only for its horrifying events, but for its scandalous Dance of ...
A new staging in Austria looks all the more unusual viewed side-by-side with the Vienna State Opera’s classic production. By A.J. Goldmann VIENNA — The most infamous part of Richard Strauss’s 1905 ...
It’s perhaps worth seeing Houston Grand Opera’s new production of “Salome,” playing through May 12 at the Wortham Center’s Brown Theater, twice: once to follow the dramatic twists and turns of Oscar ...
Get a first look at Canadian Opera Company's SALOME! A dance-perhaps the most famous one in history-precedes a macabre kiss and an execution in this opera by Richard Strauss. An explosive, modernist ...
CEDAR FALLS - Musically, “Salome” is a crowning achievement for the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre and Orchestra Iowa. Stylistically, it just didn't work for me. The 90-minute opera by Richard Strauss ...
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 ...
A scandalous dance and a shocking kiss. Madison Opera opens its 62nd season with Richard Strauss' Salome on Friday, November 4 at 8pm and Sunday, November 6 at 2:30pm in Overture Hall at the Overture ...
This canvas, on view at The Ringling, is the second of two that Robert Henri painted in 1909 depicting soprano Mademoiselle Voclezca in the title role in Richard Strauss's opera Salome. (The other ...
In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director ...
On April 7, 8, 14 and 16, at the NOVA Center for Performing Arts, Rimrock Opera will present one of the most infamous tales in the Bible’s New Testament, "Salome," in operatic form. Salome, composed ...
NPR Berlin's Rebecca Schmid has a review of the Kommische Oper's Salome. Schmid says the new production, which premiered on April 10th, is filled... If the history of Richard Strauss' Salome should be ...
In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director ...