Manna K Jones as Herodias, Patrick Cook as Herod and Summer Hassan as Salome. Photo: Andrew Boyle. Salomé is a challenge for a small opera company for both practical and political reasons.

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

Hassan’s fierce, clarion soprano found Salome’s humanity, whether as a flirty teenager, corrupted siren, or wounded victim lashing out; she was mesmerizing, even sympathetic, in the grotesque ...

Strauss envisioned his title character as “a 16-year-old princess with the voice of an Isolde,” and Dinkova and the soprano Summer Hassan have doubled down on Salome’s youth.

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 ...

Summer Hassan was a convincingly girlish Salome, her crisp, poised delivery mirroring Lachmann’s view of the character as a disturbed innocent. Patrick Cook found in Herod the strain of queasy ...

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 ...

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.

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