Heartbeat Opera’s ‘Salome’ Dares Us to Look In this disgustingly clever new production, the company takes one of the most difficult works in the opera canon and turns it inside out.

This image released by Heartbeat Opera shows soprano Summer Hassan as Salome, right, and baritone Nathaniel Sullivan as John the Baptist, in a scene from Heartbeat Opera's production of Richard ...

Dinkova’s detailed direction of the Salome-Jokanaan encounter is unusually steamy (and mutual) with soprano Summer Hassan sporting prom-dress layers of pink tulle and baritone Nathaniel Sullivan ...

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.

Nathaniel Sullivan, left, and Summer Hassan in Heartbeat Opera’s production of “Salome” at the Space at Irondale. Andrew Boyle ...

Summer Hassan was a convincingly girlish Salome, her crisp, poised delivery mirroring Lachmann’s view of the character as a disturbed innocent.

The first new Metropolitan Opera production of “Salome” in 20 years takes a surreal, psychological approach to Strauss’s 1905 opera.

With a Salome sung to the hilt by soprano Summer Hassan who had a Wagnerian size vocal presence (though costumed out of GREASE), an absolutely revoltingly good Tetrarch Herod sung (and danced ...

"Hassan," a play in three acts, written by J. E. Fleckner, is the play chosen by the officers of the Dramatic Club for its spring production. The play was first shown in London in 1924, enjoying a ...

In opera, there is often nothing more dangerous than female sexuality. Salome is a story where a woman's love becomes dangerous obsession, leading to bloodshed and necrophilia. From a feminist ...

This image released by Heartbeat Opera shows soprano Summer Hassan as Salome, right, and baritone Nathaniel Sullivan as John the Baptist, in a scene from Heartbeat Opera's production of Richard ...