Dinkova is attuned to the operations of the gaze in the text and in the opera house. Narraboth surveils everyone, especially Salome, on security cameras that show us spaces beyond the opera house.

As for casting the Swede in the title role of Richard Strauss’s Salome, the idea seemed roughly comparable to starring Judith Anderson as Lolita. But New York’s Metropolitan Opera does ...

Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet. By Zachary Woolfe Strauss’s “Salome” begins with a swiftly slithering ...