1 Former Kennedy Center Arts Curator Details Experience Amidst Trump Takeover Hailed as "one of the greatest Strauss interpreters of all time" (Wall Street Journal), Deborah Voigt is considered the ...

The story of Salome, the niece and stepdaughter of the biblical King Herod, and her pursuit of John the Baptist has inspired countless works, from theater productions and paintings to films and ...

The new production of Richard Strauss’ Salome unveiled by Santa Fe Opera on Saturday affords as fine an evening of musical drama as the company’s audience can hope for. It conveys the tale with ...

Richard Strauss’s eerie and perverse Salome is based on Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name as adapted by librettist Hedwig Lachmann. Wilde was inspired by the Biblical tale of Princess Salome and ...

In Richard Strauss’ opera Salome, the title character is a teenage temptress who lusts after John the Baptist, and after being spurned by the prophet, engineers his death by dancing a strip tease for ...

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 ...