Describing the new Metropolitan Opera production of “Salome” feels a bit like recounting the details of a dream: The lines start to blur, the colors begin to drain, the details dissolve in the telling ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Elza van den Heever’s portrayal of Salome sticks to her when she leaves the Metropolitan Opera for a rented apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Every night I wake up with the ...
The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...
German director Claus Guth makes his Metropolitan Opera debut with a production of Strauss’s one-act thriller starring soprano Elza van den Heever.