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 ...
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick In his company debut, the director Claus Guth takes a psychological approach, surrounding the title character with six versions of her ...
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What to know about the darkly twisted ‘Salome,’ which is back at the Lyric Opera after two decades
Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago runs through Feb. 14.
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 ...
The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden opened its fourth revival of David McVicar’s famous 2008 production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” one day after the death of the Queen of England in 2022 ...
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