Salome, the teenage princess of Judea, becomes dangerously fixated on the imprisoned prophet John the Baptist. When he rejects her advances, her desire curdles into obsession. At her stepfather ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sex sells – apparently even when it involves teenage necrophilia, as composer Richard Strauss discovered following the 1905 premiere of ...

They each released a debut solo EP between autumn 2019 and spring 2021. Zaar led the way with the cold and glitchy Lost My Sense of Humour. Salóme Katrín followed shortly after with Water, a ...

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Head case: Salome (Angela Denoke) at the Royal Opera House in David McVicar's production of Strauss's opera Credit: Photo: Alastair Muir The Bible has plenty of lurid tales that artists have adapted ...

Australian director Adena Jacobs is making her ENO debut with a new production of Strauss's scandalous opera. She's earned a reputation for subversive, feminist works like 'The Howling Girls' that ...

Most of what we know about Salome was written or imagined well after her alleged crime. Reviled as a seductress, who, some 2,000 years ago danced in front of her stepfather, Herod, before requesting ...

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 ...

Last month, the Ophelias announced Spring Grove, their fourth LP and the first album produced by Julien Baker. "Cumulonimbus” served as an exquisite lead single, and today the indie rock band is ...