Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan scored a fair-sized sensation with his 1996 Canadian Opera Company production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” — the one about the stepdaughter of the depraved King ...

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DETROIT (AP) — Maria Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances who became the wife of director Peter Hall and the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, has died at age 71.

Oscar Wilde's tragedy, Salome, was first translated into opera in 1905 by Richard Strauss. Combining dramatic vibratos and a seductive orchestral arrangement, Strauss' opera is intense to say the ...

Gorgeous music, an intelligent text, a sensuous dance and a killer role for the soprano: They're all part of Richard Strauss' "Salome." Opera Theatre of St. Louis' first production of "Salome" opens ...