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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tawdry, titillating and Teutonic, the Canadian Opera Company's Salome is the sort of production that will thrill some viewers, amuse others, and enrage a few – and that's pretty much as it should be.

Richard Trey Smagur, as Narraboth (right), pleads with Ausrine Stundyte, as Salome, in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's performance of Strauss' "Salome," conducted by Fabio Luisi on Friday, January 31, ...

Proms 58 & 59 Royal Albert Hall London SW7 (bbc.co.uk/Proms; 0845 401 5040) It was smart planning by the Proms to schedule the operas on successive nights, as the culmination of Strauss's 150th ...

English National Opera brings a new production of Salome to the London Coliseum this September, 13 years on from its last performance of the opera. Based on the familiar biblical story, this bold new ...

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 ...