Photo by Ken Howard/ Metropolitan Opera. Gerhard Siegel as Herod and Patricia Racette in the title role of Strauss's Salome Photo by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera.

Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the ...

From the Met in New York, Strauss's opera Salome, starring Patricia Racette.

Catherine Naglestad makes her Met debut in the tour-de-force role of Salome, part innocent and part sexual predator. Željko Lučić is her prophetic nemesis Jochanaan, John the Baptist.