A 2,000-year-old burial cave in Israel is continuing to stir debate. Who exactly was buried here? Was it one of Jesus’ female ...

New research suggests that a burial site once venerated by Christian pilgrims likely belonged to a member of Herod’s dynasty ...

A new study suggests that the Salome buried in this tomb was, in fact, not the apocryphal Biblical figure, but rather the younger sister of Judean king Herod the Great.

Their leading theory is that it belonged to Princess Salome, the sister of the Judaean king Herod the Great, the cruel ruler who had young children massacred.

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 ...

Men do not come off well in “Salome,” you’ve got King Herod for one thing and Salome’s dad who is weird and scenes with lewd men and little girls that make you not want to read the subtitles.

Gerhard Siegel, a veteran Herod, navigated the king’s tongue-twisting harangues with ease, yet he resorted to the kind of barking-and-rasping caricature that is all too familiar in “Salome ...

Tenor Gerhard Siegel offered a dynamic and devilish Herod, his voice well-suited to the king’s swings between power and impotence — especially as he tries to win his stepdaughter’s ...

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

The first sound in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “Salome” isn’t the wriggle of clarinet that begins Strauss’s score. It’s the tinkle of a music box, while a little girl ...