Samson et Dalila - Met Opera Live
(2018)
3 hours 43 minutes
drama
When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.
Roberto Alagna
as Samson
Elina Garanca
as Dalila
Laurent Naouri
as The High Priest of Dagon
Elchin Azizov
as Abimélech
Cinemas showing
Samson et Dalila - Met Opera Live