Elina Garanca plays Dalila in Samson et Dalila. Bring on the dancing. The Metropolitan Opera has a hot new production of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah) complete with ...

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To describe the Metropolitan Opera’s season-opening production of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila as gaudy, cheesy, and silly is a compliment, not a complaint. The director, Darko Tresnjak, embraces ...

This Sept. 11, 2018 photo released by The Metropolitan Opera shows mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as Dalila in a scene from Saint-Saens' "Samson et Dalila" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. A new ...

Samson and Delilah is a three-act French opera. It is based on the story of Samson and Delilah in the Old Testament of the Bible. The words and story of the opera were written by Ferdinand Lemaire.

A towering biblical epic, Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the story of Samson and Delilah has many of the hallmarks of grand opera—show-stopping vocal displays, thrilling choruses, and an engrossing ...

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For an opera about an action hero, Camille Saint-Saens’s “Samson et Dalila” is remarkably action-free: Even the climactic moment when Delilah shears the hero’s hair takes place offstage. It’s open to ...

Talk about your weapons of mass seduction. Olga Borodina, as the Philistine uber-temptress Delilah in “Samson et Dalila,” has them all, and they’re hidden in plain sight. When we first behold her, ...