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 ...

The story of Salome, the niece and stepdaughter of the biblical King Herod, and her pursuit of John the Baptist has inspired countless works, from theater productions and paintings to films and ...

3 Cast Set for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at Invictus Theatre Company 4 Cast Set for MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at Goodman Theatre Holloway makes her Lyric debut in the title role of Salome, which returns to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Salome is a dark and provocative opera centered on the biblical story of King Herod’s stepdaughter and her obsessive desire for John the Baptist (Jochanaan). Captivated by Jochanaan’s purity and ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome, on stage January 25 – February 14, 2026. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to Lyric for the first time in 20 ...

San Diego Opera’s “Salome” Morning News / Mar 20, 2025 / 10:38 AM PDT David Bennett, General Director of San Diego Opera, and Nina Warren, "Herodias" in San Diego Opera's "Salome", talk about their ...