Film

Samson Et Dalila

2024 · Music

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns’s grand-opera retelling of the Bible story of Samson and Delilah. Multi-Olivier Award winning director Richard Jones returns to The Royal Opera to stage this spectacular fin-de-siècle masterpiece, not performed at Covent Garden since 2004. Elina Garanca stars as the Philistine Dalila, SeokJong Baek as the inspiring Jewish hero Samson and Antonio Pappano conducts the full forces of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. With superb singing in solos and duets of great intimacy and fervour, gorgeous music with thrilling orchestral interludes, and splendid choral numbers for the Royal Opera Chorus – this is a performance to remember.

SeokJong Baek

Samson

Elīna Garanča

Dalila

Łukasz Goliński

High Priest

Alan Pingarron

First Philistine

Chuma Sijeqa

Second Philistine

Thando Mjandana

Messenger

Blaise Malaba

Abimélech

Goderdzi Janelidze

Samson’s Rabbi

• Richard JonesDirector

Release date

January 1, 2024

Status

Released

Original language

English

Genres

Music

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