Photo by Ken Howard/ Metropolitan Opera. Gerhard Siegel as Herod and Patricia Racette in the title role of Strauss's Salome Photo by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera.
In three central analytical chapters, Derrick Puffett considers Salome in relation to Wagnerian music drama, Tethys Carpenter examines its tonal and dramatic structure, and Craig Ayrey analyses the ...
Conductor Johannes Fritzsch says, 'Salome' is the first modern opera. Lust, violence and religious fervour all have their moments in this short, compelling opera about the worst of human nature.
Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the ...
Doss is doing this week in Houston as he takes on one of his signature roles as John the Baptist (Jokanaan) in Richard Strauss' controversial, early-20th-century opera "Salome," based on the play ...