Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2025/26 Season will continue with Richard Strauss’s electrifying Salome. Salome returns to Lyric for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...