Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila

Pappano conducts with relentless energy, forging a consistent stylistic and dramatic unity from the eclectic mix of elements – Bach’s Passions, Wagnerian chromaticism, North African music – that... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2024 More…

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2024
Catalogue No: OA1371D
Label: Opus Arte

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SeokJong Baek (Samson), Elina Garanča (Dalila), Lukasz Golinski (High Priest of Dagon), Blaise Malaba (Abimelech), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company)
Antonio Pappano

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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.

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April 2024

Pappano conducts with relentless energy, forging a consistent stylistic and dramatic unity from the eclectic mix of elements – Bach’s Passions, Wagnerian chromaticism, North African music – that fired Saint-Saëns’s imagination.

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