Consequently, he sent an executioner with the order to bring John’s head on a platter and present it to Salome. In this painting, Salome is depicted the moment before she hands the platter to her ...

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

The earliest known painting by Carel is The Beheading of John ... The chiaroscuro is confident and radiant, contrasting the white of Salome’s ermine collar with the old woman’s raised finger ...

staging this “Salome” finds Seyfried’s fraught character confronting the memory of her abuser-father and her childhood sexual trauma while exploring how life can illuminate and amplify art.

When Salome descends into the cistern, a white-faced Jochanaan sits in one corner. In the other is a rocking horse along with other nursery toys. The same little girl from the prologue sits partly ...