By Grace Jean – Washington Post Virginia Opera’s cinematic production of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” was a passionate tour de force that etched love and death in vivid bas-relief Saturday evening at George Mason University’s...
By Roy Proctor Special correspondent In 100 riveting minutes, Virginia Opera is serving up Richard Strauss’ biblically inspired kinkfest “Salome” with all the efficiency its bloodied executioner brings to serving up John the Baptist’s severed head to the willful...
By Rich Griset – Style Weekly Few operas have generated as much controversy as “Salome.” London banned all performances until 1910. Gustav Mahler’s attempt to conduct it in Vienna was thwarted after the Catholic archbishop deemed it immoral. The Metropolitan...
The Virginian-Pilot January 29, 2015 Art: In classical painting, Salome has been presented both as a naive, innocent teenager and as a seductress by such masters as Titian, Caravaggio and Gustave Moreau. Book: Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play, which is the origin of the...
By Mal Vincent Virginian-Pilot correspondent January 29, 2015 She was a bad, bad girl. Even by biblical standards, Salome was a seductress of the first rank. After all, Delilah only gave Samson a haircut. Salome got the entire head of John the Baptist, served on a...
