A leader of an order founded in the 12th century to protect Christian in the Holy Land, has claimed that there are secret ...

On Friday, July 4, the United States will celebrate the 249th anniversary of the official signing of the Declaration of ...

There are men wearing ram’s heads and John the Baptist chained in the dungeon and more mental illness than in most operas but it’s in German. The music has its dissonant edges but it’s ...

The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...

Watch and listen to five recent highlights, including Metropolitan Opera performances, the posthorn solo in Mahler’s Third and music by Tomeka Reid.

When she copies the gestures that Jochanaan — the opera’s John the Baptist — makes while praying, we realize queasily that her molesting of the servant Narraboth earlier must have been an ...

Basically manifest carol and praises were invested by Mary and Elizabeth in the inaugural Christmas as Jesus Christ and John the Baptist participated yet in the womb.

Max von Sydow plays Jesus, with Charlton Heston as John the Baptist, José Ferrer as Herod Antipas, and Sidney Poitier as Simon of Cyrene, with cameos from a who’s who of famous actors ...

Colourful dramatisation of the birth, life and death of Jesus Christ.

In all four Gospel accounts, the role of John the Baptist is to proclaim and identify Jesus, who shortly after Jesus is baptized, is imprisoned by Herod Antipas.

Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” Still Shocks More Than 130 Years After Its Premiere Imago Theatre commits to the bit down to every detail of Wilde’s erotic biblical play.

Wilde was inspired by the Biblical tale of Princess Salome and John the Baptist, a prisoner of King Herod, her stepfather.