The poster for the new production of Salome (image courtesy the theater company) Unlike the majority of Oscar Wilde’s works, his tragedy Salomé (1891) is not a crowd-pleaser. Given the subject matter ...

When Salome premiered in 1905, it made waves. At opera houses that didn’t ban it for its obscene depravity, shocked audiences poured in to see Richard Strauss’s take on the infamous biblical princess ...

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 ...

According to the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, the Judean Princess Salome danced for her stepfather Herod Antipas and in return asked for the head of the prophet John the Baptist to be brought on a ...

Most Westerners are familiar with the Bible story of Salome, especially the dance of the seven veils, in which the young princess Salome dances for Herod and demands the head of John the Baptist in ...

Kelly Cae Hogan's powerful soprano in the title role is the tastiest treat in Portland Opera's very mixed bag of a "Salome." Whether singing sensual similes describing the body, hair and mouth of John ...

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