The New York Times

HAMMERSTEIN OPERA PLANS.; Mary Garden to Do the Salome Dance -- Foreign Singers About to Sail.

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Claus Guth’s ‘Salome’ at the Met Says the Quiet Part Loud

Staged in deepest black and dingy white, Guth’s production is unapologetic in its symbolism. It opens on a girl playing with a doll in relative silence. She breaks off its arms moments before that ...
The New York Times

For His Met Opera Debut, a Director Takes On ‘Salome’

Performances in N.Y.C. The renowned German director Claus Guth is staging Strauss’s breakthrough opera with a focus on themes of trauma and abuse. The director Claus Guth is making his Metropolitan ...