New YorkHeartbeat Opera, now in its 11th season, radically rethinks classics, and its new “Salome,” adapted by Jacob Ashworth ...

Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet.

Oscar Wilde's biblical tale of lust and revenge, Salome follows the legend of King Herod (Al Pacino) and his unbridled desire for Salome (Marisa Tomei), the young daughter of his wife, Herodias ...

Salome, princess of Judea, the daughter‑in‑law of King Herod, finds life in her father‑in‑law’s palace dreary. Her curiosity is roused when she hears the voice of Jochanaan, a prophet ...

Catherine Naglestad makes her Met debut in the tour-de-force role of Salome, part innocent and part ... Gerhard Siegel is Herod, and Johannes Debus conducts.

Gerhard Siegel as Herod and Patricia Racette in the title role of Strauss's Salome Photo by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera. Patricia Racette in the title role of Strauss's Salome ...

The revolt led by Barrabas is also included and John the Baptist's beheading as Salome's price for dancing for Herod.

The Galilean Princess Salome is one of the mythical female figures in Western cultural history Her erotic dance in front of her stepfather Herod is already mentioned in the gospels of the Bible ...