Describing the new Metropolitan Opera production of “Salome” feels a bit like recounting the details of a dream: The lines start to blur, the colors begin to drain, the details dissolve in the telling ...

The performance begings at noon Saturday at the Town Plaza Cinema; the encore broadcast will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Finnish soprano Karita Mattila will be playing the part of Salome, the daughter of ...

Richard Strauss’ revolutionary score and scandalous Oscar Wilde–inspired drama took the world by storm at its premiere and continues to wow audiences today. Catherine Naglestad makes her Met debut in ...

Director Claus Guth reimagines the biblical tale through Oscar Wilde’s haunting play. The first new production of the opera at the Met in 20 years, director Claus Guth reimagines the biblical tale ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Strauss’s eerie and perverse Salome is based on Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name as adapted by librettist Hedwig Lachmann. Wilde was inspired by the Biblical tale of Princess Salome 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 ...

The people at Heartbeat Opera--that dazzling reinvention-machine for taking works that you think you might have heard one time too often and making them compelling--must have had a crystal ball when ...