PORT ANGELES — Actress and choreographer Anna Pederson, veteran of many musicals and plays, wanted to dance. And it would be lovely, she thought, to be in a show with her new husband, Jeremy Pederson.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Richard Strauss asks the heroine of his feverish, Oscar Wilde-based opera "Salome" to look like a 15-year-old girl, act like a seasoned tragedian, sing with bel canto agility and Wagnerian amplitude, ...

Jewish performers and spectators have long been bewitched by Salome, an otherwise obscure minor character name-checked by the historian Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews. As a new study by Cecily ...