Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically ...

Richard Strauss's Salome is set to be part of San Diego Opera's 60th anniversary season, running from March 1 to April 30, 2025. The production will feature a combination of traditional opera ...

This German director – who was given his first opera work by ... she is a sulky teen, not a full-grown femme fatale. In the pit Alejo Perez carefully guides Strauss’s slowly-unfolding score towards ...

In another iconic scene, a Salome body double holds the ... she says in New York before heading to Europe. Opera aficionados await her first full Isolde and BrUnnhilde. "And then ever further ...

Catherine Naglestad makes her Met debut in the tour-de-force role of Salome, part innocent and part sexual predator. Željko Lučić is her prophetic nemesis Jochanaan, John the Baptist.