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For His Met Opera Debut, a Director Takes On ‘Salome’
The renowned German director Claus Guth is staging Strauss’s breakthrough opera with a focus on themes of trauma and abuse.
New York Classical Review6d
Blue returns for final season run of Met’s “Aida”
The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Aida returned Sunday afternoon for an end-of-season run. From the opening-night ...
Soprano Elza van den Heever has nightmares from her disturbing portrayal of `Salome'
Elza van den Heever’s portrayal of Salome sticks to her when she leaves the Metropolitan Opera for a rented apartment on ...
The Washington Post5d
At the Met, an unsettling new vision of ‘Salome’ unfolds like a dream
Describing the new Metropolitan Opera production of “Salome” feels ... whose departure in Guth’s telling is a bit less self-imposed. The night’s other big star was Met music director ...
Glamor and glitz: A look at Metropolitan Opera's first appearance in Oklahoma City in 1950
On May 4, 1950, a collage of photos of the Metropolitan Opera Co. and those attending the performance were published in The Daily Oklahoman.