Guth, Claus – MOSAEC

Seven Takes on the Lurid Dance of the Seven Veils in Strauss’s ‘Salome’

In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history.

By Zachary Woolfe

Guth, Claus Metropolitan Opera Opera Salome (Opera)

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.

By Javier C. Hernandez

Classical Music Guth, Claus Opera Pichon, Raphael Rameau, Jean-Philippe Samson (Opera) Voltaire

A Lost Masterpiece of Opera Returns, Kind of

The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s most important cultural figures.

By Zachary Woolfe

Brownlee, Lawrence Chicago (Ill) Classical Music Davidsen, Lise Guth, Claus Hrusa, Jakub Jenufa (Opera) La Fille du Regiment (Opera) Lyric Opera of Chicago Opera Pelly, Laurent Stemme, Nina

Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For

Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling Lyric Opera of Chicago.

By Zachary Woolfe