The cacophonies that seemed so arbitrary when “Salome” was a novelty now sound only like appropriate theatrical dissonances in a predominantly euphonious score. Granting that the Metropolitan stage ...

There is a way to tell the story of history that is not a chronology but a choreography. Time moves like a dancer drawing near, withdrawing, circling, and each age is the loosening of a veil that once ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

“A Man of No Importance,” written by Terrance McNally with music and lyrics by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Aherns (the duo is best known for their award-winning work on “Ragtime”), takes place in Dublin ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Memorable performances included a pair of Strauss operas, a suave villain, a star soprano in “Fidelio” and a new conductor in “Le Nozze di Figaro.” Credit...Metropolitan Opera ...

WE WENT to see Richard Strauss’s “Salome” at the Metropolitan Opera Wednesday night, or let’s say that my love went and I went with her, she because she loves opera and I because I don’t know enough ...

This image released by Heartbeat Opera shows soprano Summer Hassan as Salome, right, and baritone Nathaniel Sullivan as John the Baptist, in a scene from Heartbeat Opera's production of Richard ...

Describing the new Metropolitan Opera production of “Salome” feels a bit like recounting the details of a dream: The lines start to blur, the colors begin to drain, the details dissolve in the telling ...

NEW YORK – Elza van den Heever’s portrayal of Salome sticks to her when she leaves the Metropolitan Opera for a rented apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Every night I wake up with the most ...