ACT ONE: The opera begins in a public square in Gaza, before the temple of Dagon, at night. A crowd of Hebrew slaves prays for deliverance from the tyranny of their captors, the Philistines. Samson ...

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 ...

3 Review: LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Royal Ballet And Opera When mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Sept. 11, 2018 photo released by The Metropolitan Opera shows mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as Dalila in a scene from ...

Roberto Alagna turns his back on the sinful razzle-dazzle of the Met’s Samson et Dalila. Ken Howard / Met Opera A particular delight of opera is that the art form can be enjoyed on so many levels: ...

Camille Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila, if placed in its original context, has the potential to be one the most inflammatory of operas onstage today. Although many of history's greatest operas revolve ...

3 Photos: New Look At JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR West End Starring Sam Ryder and More 4 Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, Starring Sam Ryder Director Richard Jones does not shy away from employing religious ...

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 ...

The three-act French opera Samson and Dalila, first performed in 1877, seemed like an odd choice to start the Dallas Opera’s 2017-18 season, but Friday’s opening-night performance proved that it has ...

In the well-known tale taken from the Old Testament’s Book of Judges, Samson, one of the oppressed Jews, displays a unique strength when he kills Abimelech, one of the ruling Philistines. With Samson ...