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Queen of Sheba, by Goldmark: at Met. After just fifteen years of slumber, Goldmark's opera, "The Queen of Sheba," was revived at the Metropolitan Opera House last evening on an elaborate scale.
The Queen of Sheba is a holy figure to some; a demon in disguise to others. Author and journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee explores the many afterlives of the Queen of Sheba — and how ideas about ...
Boone said Solomon might have become infatuated with the Queen of Sheba because he had 300 wives and 700 concubines, many of whom were foreign and eventually corrupted his religion and offended God.
The Queen of Sheba is the Greta Garbo of antiquity. A glamorous, mysterious figure immortalized in the Bible and the Quran, celebrated in an oratorio by Handel, an opera by Charles Gounod, a ...
Okay, we can’t say for sure whether the legendary romance between the biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba – if she even existed – really happened. But we do know that a speaker of Sheba’s ...