Samson Et Dalila
01/01/2024
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.
Movie Information
SeokJong Baek
as Samson
Elīna Garanča
as Dalila
Łukasz Goliński
as High Priest
Alan Pingarron
as First Philistine
Chuma Sijeqa
as Second Philistine
Thando Mjandana
as Messenger
Blaise Malaba
as Abimélech
Goderdzi Janelidze
as Samson’s Rabbi
