Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of ...
Original director David McVicar’s famous production of the Richard Strauss opera gets its bloody, eye-popping U.S. debut in ...
The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to ...
The story of Salome comes to us from the Bible. She is the daughter of Herodias and Herod II. Her mother later marries her ...
Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome, on stage January 25 – February 14, 2026. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to Lyric for the first time in 20 ...
Holloway makes her Lyric debut in the title role of Salome, which returns to the house for the first time in 20 years. A distinguished interpreter of Strauss, Holloway has appeared in the ...
McVicar sets the action in a concrete basement beneath a banqueting hall (set designer Es Devlin, revival director Bárbara Lluch). Most of the men are in early 20th century military uniform, and most ...
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