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Royalty and opera both live in spaces of extreme stakes, and that’s precisely where Canadian soprano Ambur Braid prefers to spend her time. “Extreme people are much easier to unpack,” says the B.C.

Everybody has their favourite Salome, but Asmik Grigorian has for some years been up there with the greatest. Her voice is commanding rather than voluminous, but also suitably alluring for this ...

In both its storyline – culminating in the anti-heroine’s kissing of the mouth of the freshly decapitated Jochanaan – and the blistering intensity of its music, Richard Strauss’s Salome pushes ...