Richard Strauss' Salome packs a more dramatic wallop than almost any other opera. Adapted from the Oscar Wilde play, this one-act offers an intense portrait of its Biblical title character's emotional ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on ...

A scandalous dance and a shocking kiss. Madison Opera opens its 62nd season with Richard Strauss' Salome on Friday, November 4 at 8pm and Sunday, November 6 at 2:30pm in Overture Hall at the Overture ...

The president of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Allison Vulgamore, has run the numbers: in Philadelphia, the audience for classical music and the audience for opera are different. “What we’re learning is ...

Virginia Opera’s “Salome” may be one way to heat up the cold winter weeks. The company’s production of this steamy Richard Strauss opera plays three performances Friday through Tuesday at the Harrison ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. First performed in 1905, Salome was originally censored in Vienna, banned ...

Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The libretto is Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the 1891 French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde and edited by the composer. The opera is ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The story is so old, it's in the Bible. A Judean princess falls for a prophet, but when John the Baptist spurns her amorous advances, Salome contrives to have King Herod order his ...

An epic of literally biblical proportions, Salome is the story of the eponymous seductive princess who dances the dance of the seven veils for her stepfather Herod, king of Judea for the reward of ...

Of the six operas that comprise San Francisco Opera's fall 2009 season, Richard Strauss' Salomé is the outlier — a production that, by design, represents something of a departure from the musical and ...