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 ...

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 new production in Wrocław looks nothing like what you think opera looks like. Let me explain — and I promise that by the end of this text, you’ll be buying a ticket. 1. Not drawn to the classical ...

Artistic Director Tobias Picker, says: "Here at Tulsa Opera we have waited more than two long years to celebrate our operatic return to the Tulsa Performing Arts Center and we are delighted that it ...

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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 ...