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The full lineup of titles and artists has been revealed for Seattle Opera's 2026/27 season. An exploration of love in all its ...
Original director David McVicar’s famous production of the Richard Strauss opera gets its bloody, eye-popping U.S. debut in ...
Lyric stages Richard Strauss's twisted but thrilling Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, for the first time in 20 years.
Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of ...
The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Part fairy tale, part psychodrama, Richard Strauss’s “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” (The Woman Without a Shadow) calls for three big-voiced sopranos who can do justice to a long and ...
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 ...