There was a time when a body-double was used for Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils ... larger-than-life or verbally vivid enough for this house. Still, his slightness was to his advantage beside ...

“Something terrible is going to happen” (“Es wird schreckliches geschehen”) is declared repeatedly in Salome ... in its orchestration. The Royal Opera’s staging could be better seen ...

Dinkova is attuned to the operations of the gaze in the text and in the opera house. Narraboth surveils everyone, especially Salome, on security cameras that show us spaces beyond the opera house.

As Salome kisses the severed head of John the Baptist, her voluptuous frenzy and the inevitability of her doom send an unmistakable chill up the collective spine of the Royal Opera audience.

As for casting the Swede in the title role of Richard Strauss’s Salome, the idea seemed roughly comparable to starring Judith Anderson as Lolita. But New York’s Metropolitan Opera does ...

By Rebecca Schmid For the next music director of the Royal Opera House, Jakub Hrusa ... on Broadway and in the West End. Taking on ‘Salome’: For his Met Opera debut, the renowned German ...

If you thought horror as a genre wasn't something opera dabbled in, think again. The fourth outing for David McVicar's 2008 production of Richard Strauss' is as bloody and gruesome as it gets in ...

To take such abstraction, the allusive possibility of Wilde’s language and Aubrey Beardsley’s images, and turn them into something so literal is to take a risk, especially in a climate of unshockable ...