Salome hears the mad cries of John the Baptist (here known as Jokanaan, and played by Kevin Anderson), who has been imprisoned in an empty cistern. Jokanaan rails against the sinful union of Herod ...

Salome seen with fresh eyes: Nadine Malouf, center is Salome in Yael Farber’s new adaptation. Elan Zafir, left, and Shahar Isaac, right, restrain her as a spectral Olwen Fouere watches.

To say that Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is your favorite opera is a bit like saying that “The Shining” is your favorite film or that Edgar Allan Poe is your favorite author: it marks you ...

Heartbeat Opera’s ‘Salome’ Dares Us to Look In this disgustingly clever new production, the company takes one of the most difficult works in the opera canon and turns it inside out.

From its insidious opening clarinet solo, Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is a creepy, unsettling piece of theater, its story rooted in unhealthy sexual obsession. For his new production at the ...

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.

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 ...