The first new production of the opera at the Met in 20 years, director Claus Guth reimagines the biblical tale through Oscar Wilde’s haunting play, setting it in an intricate Victorian world filled ...

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Observer connected with the breakout star to discuss her commanding voice, bold theatricality and Claus Guth's provocative new 'Salome.' Elza van den Heever at the Kaiserin in Die Frau ohne Schatten.

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 ...

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 ...

We commemorate the birthday of the renowned gay Irish writer Oscar Wilde with an excerpt from the play he was writing in ...

A scandalous opera based on a scandalous play by Oscar Wilde — Salome — complete with the Dance of the Seven Veils is about to receive a new production courtesy of Houston Grand Opera and according to ...

The cacophonies that seemed so arbitrary when “Salome” was a novelty now sound only like appropriate theatrical dissonances in a predominantly euphonious score. Granting that the Metropolitan stage ...

The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...