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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

One certainty emerged from this undistinguished new production of Samson Et Dalila. Patrons of the London Symphony Orchestra are in for a treat when Antonio Pappano takes over as music director. His ...

If there’s one main flaw that has prevented Saint-Saëns’ voluptuous Samson et Dalila from joining the ranks of A-list operas like Carmen and Aida, it’s the biblical piece’s lack of theatrical tension.

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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.

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 ...

Richard Jones and Antonio Pappano collaborate on an impressive staging of Saint-Saëns’ biblical epic Saint-Saëns’ biblical epic makes a welcome return to the Covent Garden stage, with Richard Jones in ...