Review: The real star of Lyric Opera’s ‘Salome’ is Strauss’ extraordinary score

The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to ...

Review: In ‘Salome’ by Lyric Opera, devastating excess is the point

Original director David McVicar’s famous production of the Richard Strauss opera gets its bloody, eye-popping U.S. debut in ...
WBEZ

What to know about the darkly twisted ‘Salome,’ which is back at the Lyric Opera after two decades

Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of ...
Chicago Reader

Losing your head at Lyric

Lyric stages Richard Strauss's twisted but thrilling Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, for the first time in 20 years.
The New York Times

Shadow of a Childless Woman: The Mythic Roots of Strauss’s ‘Frau’

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by What’s behind the strange emphasis on childlessness in “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” the Strauss-Hofmannsthal opera now at the Met? Look to the ancients.
BroadwayWorld

San Francisco Opera Presents Strauss and Hofmannsthal's 'Die Frau Ohne Schatten' Next Month

San Francisco Opera Presents Strauss and Hofmannsthal's "Die Frau ohne San Francisco Opera presents Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman ...
The New York Times

‘Guntram’ Review: In Concert at Carnegie, Strauss’s First Opera

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Leon Botstein’s American Symphony Orchestra dusts off “Guntram,” and singers unveil the beauties and flaws of a 19th-century epic fail. By Corinna da ...