MONTREAL — Richard Strauss' “Salomé” may be most notorious for its “Dance of the Seven Veils” or Salomé's erotic embrace with the head of John the Baptist, but the composer's rich setting of Oscar ...
Laura Wilde as Salome and Ryan McKinny as Jokanaa (John the Baptist) in Salome. Credit: Photo by Michael Bishop Abominable. Cacophonous. Cruelest discord. Disgusting. Madness. Although these ...
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 ...
A scandalous fellow wrote a scandalous play which became a scandalous opera. Kelly Slawson brings a dazzlingly powerful, beautiful voice to the title role. It’s an unforgettable triumph in a real tour ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — 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 ...
Observer connected with the breakout star to discuss her commanding voice, bold theatricality and Claus Guth's provocative new 'Salome.' Elza van den Heever at the Kaiserin in Die Frau ohne Schatten.
Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet. By Zachary Woolfe Strauss’s “Salome” begins with a swiftly slithering clarinet ...
Following two of the most brilliantly wacky operas of our time from Gerald Barry, the premiere of his 'Salome' promises to ...
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