Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Few operas have so scandalised audiences so delighted to be shocked as much as Salome, Richard Strauss’ provocative combination of ...

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Salome, the teenage princess of Judea, becomes dangerously fixated on the imprisoned prophet John the Baptist. When he rejects her advances, her desire curdles into obsession. At her stepfather ...

This Saturday, October 23rd at 6:15pmEST, songs from the new musical, SALOMÉ VS. JOHN by Rebecca Aparicio and Stephen Elkins, will be performed in concert at Queens Theatre as part of the City Artist ...

For this week’s New Testament reading, let us turn to the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 14, verses 3 to 11: ...

Head case: Salome (Angela Denoke) at the Royal Opera House in David McVicar's production of Strauss's opera Credit: Photo: Alastair Muir The Bible has plenty of lurid tales that artists have adapted ...