This Saturday, October 23rd at 6:15pmEST, songs from the new musical, SALOMÉ VS. JOHN by Rebecca Aparicio and Stephen Elkins, will be performed in concert at Queens Theatre as part of the City Artist ...
Salome, the teenage princess of Judea, becomes dangerously fixated on the imprisoned prophet John the Baptist. When he rejects her advances, her desire curdles into obsession. At her stepfather ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Few operas have so scandalised audiences so delighted to be shocked as much as Salome, Richard Strauss’ provocative combination of ...
The cacophonies that seemed so arbitrary when “Salome” was a novelty now sound only like appropriate theatrical dissonances in a predominantly euphonious score. Granting that the Metropolitan stage ...
Head case: Salome (Angela Denoke) at the Royal Opera House in David McVicar's production of Strauss's opera Credit: Photo: Alastair Muir The Bible has plenty of lurid tales that artists have adapted ...
A new staging in Austria looks all the more unusual viewed side-by-side with the Vienna State Opera’s classic production. By A.J. Goldmann VIENNA — The most infamous part of Richard Strauss’s 1905 ...
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