Salome's salacious sexuality is famous in opera. But its potrayal of Jewishness is just as layered and opaque as its ...

When Herod begs Salome to dance for him, she agrees, but her price is Jochanaan’s head on a silver platter. She is delivered her prize, but Herod is so appalled by her behavior with the severed ...

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

The Dance is Salome’s way of witnessing her own trauma, of showing Herod back to himself. He doesn’t get it, but we do. Some tableaux are truly stomach-flipping for their vile brilliance ...

which first plumbed the dark psychological potential of the biblical tale — like the lecherous gaze of Salome’s stepfather, King Herod, the erotic power of her “Dance of the Seven Veils ...

During the dance, a Herod body double wearing a mask mixing ram and human in the style of Picasso pairs with each Salome in ascending age to project stages of abuse that left her irreparably ...

which first plumbed the dark psychological potential of the biblical tale — like the lecherous gaze of Salome’s stepfather, King Herod, the erotic power of her “Dance of the Seven Veils ...