A dangerously erotic production, Maxim Didenko’s Salomé dazzles with a decadent set by Galya Solodovnikova, uncanny music by ...

Oscar Wilde’s overwrought biblical tragedy fails to convince in this staging from Israel’s Gesher Theatre An early stage work ...

Although little more than a footnote, it’s still one of the most titillating stories in the Bible: Salome, a young Jewish princess, dances for her stepfather, King Herod, in exchange for anything she ...

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"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." This is the theme of many blood-curdling tales from Medea to Salome, which the New Orleans Opera Association recently presented to a full house at the Mahalia ...

It is the turn of the last century and half-naked young women are dancing with seven veils and papier-mâché heads. “Salomania” is spreading through Europe and the United States, with crowds succumbing ...

The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...