Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (Blu-Ray) – SeokJong Baek, Elina Garanca
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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (Blu-Ray) – SeokJong Baek, Elina Garanca
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
Artists: SeokJong Baek, Elina Garanca, Lukasz Golinski, Blaise Malaba, Alan Pingarrón, Chuma Sijeqa, Thando Mjandana, Goderdzi Janelidze, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Director: Richard Jones
Video Format: 16:9
Sound Format: LPCM 2.0 / DTS Digital Surround
Region: All Regions
Language: French
Subtitles: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Opus Arte
Release Date: February 9, 2024
Run Time: 133 minutes
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 fervor, gorgeous music with thrilling orchestral interludes, and splendid choral numbers for the Royal Opera Chorus – this is a performance to remember.
History
Samson et Dalila
Camille Saint-Saëns’s sensual French opera, Samson et Dalila, is based on the Book of Judges in the Old Testament. Set around 1150 BC, it takes place in the city of Gaza, a capital of ancient Philistia and the foothill country leading to Jerusalem.
Portions of the opera, including Dalila’s seduction aria “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix” and the ballet sequence in the final act—the Bacchanale—are known well beyond the opera house.
This three-act grand opera was first performed in Weimar at the Grossherzogliches (Grand Ducal) Theater on December 2, 1877. Later the Met revived the work in its 1915/1916 season with Margarete Matzenauer as Delilah and Enrico Caruso as Samson.
The production returned to the Met in its 2018–19 season.
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