It’s perhaps worth seeing Houston Grand Opera’s new production of “Salome,” playing through May 12 at the Wortham Center’s Brown Theater, twice: once to follow the dramatic twists and turns of Oscar ...

By the time we get to Salome’s famous Dance of the Seven Veils, for which Herod has agreed to grant her any wish, any suggestion of metaphor has been dismissed entirely. For this production’s version ...

The tale of Salome, the Judean princess who demanded the head of John the Baptist from her stepfather, King Herod, is well-known, not only for its horrifying events, but for its scandalous Dance of ...

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CEDAR FALLS - Musically, “Salome” is a crowning achievement for the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre and Orchestra Iowa. Stylistically, it just didn't work for me. The 90-minute opera by Richard Strauss ...

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Unlike the majority of Oscar Wilde’s works, his tragedy Salomé (1891) is not a crowd-pleaser. Given the subject matter — a retelling of the Biblical story of the beheading of St. John the Baptist — it ...

This canvas, on view at The Ringling, is the second of two that Robert Henri painted in 1909 depicting soprano Mademoiselle Voclezca in the title role in Richard Strauss's opera Salome. (The other ...

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist by Giovanni Andrea Sirani (possibly after) depicts the dramatic climax of a moralizing biblical narrative through a Baroque-era lens. Salome with the Head of ...