To say that Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is your favorite opera is a bit like saying that “The Shining” is your favorite film or that Edgar Allan Poe is your favorite author: it marks you ...

Salome seen with fresh eyes: Nadine Malouf, center is Salome in Yael Farber’s new adaptation. Elan Zafir, left, and Shahar Isaac, right, restrain her as a spectral Olwen Fouere watches.

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 ...

Salome hears the mad cries of John the Baptist (here known as Jokanaan, and played by Kevin Anderson), who has been imprisoned in an empty cistern. Jokanaan rails against the sinful union of Herod ...

In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history.

Even without an over-the-top production—and the Met has had a couple of those—Richard Strauss’s SALOME has been outraging audiences for more than 120 years. This week’s new take by ...

Describing the new Metropolitan Opera production of “Salome” feels a bit like recounting the details of a dream: The lines start to blur, the colors begin to drain, the details dissolve in the ...

Excavations of a cave reputed to be the burial place of Salome, said in non-canonical scripture to have been nurse to the newborn Jesus, have found more signs it was both an important Jewish tomb ...

Ambur Braid as Salome, top left, Michael Kupfer-Radecky as Jochanaan, below, and Frédéric Antoun as Narraboth, top right, in the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Salome.

Richard Strauss’s Salome was a true succès de scandale at its 1905 premiere and for some years thereafter. The Metropolitan Opera in New York took up the score in 1907, but the daughter of the ...