Event listing: Great American Orchestras I | Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium | jue 24 may 2012 at 20:00

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Bleeding and dancing: Mark Ravenhill gets his teeth into Salome

Kevin W Ng, 5th February

The trailblaizing playwright makes a return to the operatic stage to direct a new production of Strauss’ Salome with Regents Opera – held in an old boxing venue, an apt location given the opera’s bloody subject...

Salome: the greatest Strauss tone poem?

Erica Miner, 24th April

A look at the succès de scandale that was Strauss first operatic hit, Salome, placing it in the context of his early tone poems Don Juan and Death and Transfiguration.

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Toulouse, Francia Seattle, WA, Estados Unidos Berlín, Alemania Ámsterdam, Países Bajos Tokyo, Japón Viena, Austria

Nina Stemme comes out ahead in Cleveland Orchestra's Salome

Zerbinetta, 24th May

“When I looked at you, I heard secret music,” says Salome in her monologue to the severed head of John the Baptist. Richard Strauss’s opera trades in the unseeable and the unknowable—from the range of metaphors applied to the moon to the nearly impossible staging of a ten-minute striptease performed by a dramatic soprano—which makes it unusually well suited to concert presentation.

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