Samson et Dalila / Saint-Saëns

SATURDAY 10th JULY / 21:30

Roman Theatre

In case of bad weather, the performance is postponed to the following day.

Duration: 2.30

 

MUSIC DIRECTOR Yves Abel

STAG’ING Jean-Louis Grinda

COSTUMES Agostino Arrivabene

COSTUMES (follow-up) Françoise Raybaud

LIGHTING Laurent Castaingt

CHOREOGRAPHY Eugénie Andrin

 

DALILAH Marie-Nicole Lemieux

SAMSON Roberto Alagna

LE GRAND PRÊTRE DE DAGON Nicolas Cavallier

ABIMELECH, SATRAP OF GAZA Julien Véronèse

A PHILISTINE MESSENGER Christophe Berry

AN OLD HEBREW Nicolas Courjal

FIRST PHILISTINE Marc Larcher

SECOND PHILISTINE Frédéric Caton

 

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Choirs of the Grand Avignon and Monte-Carlo Operas

Ballet companies of the Grand Avignon and Metz Operas

 

co-produced with the Monte-Carlo Opera

 

Opera in 3 acts and 4 scenes

Music by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire

Created at the Weimar Grand Ducal Theatre on 2 December 1877

 

On a biblical theme yet with barely hidden eroticism, Samson et Dalila allows Camille Saint-Saëns to offer audiences a grand opera that is spectacular while also intimate when it comes to seduction or remorse. Add to this the choir, mighty and generous, which is a character of its own. And on top of that the ballet, whose music no doubt is one of the most successful in the history of opera! Roberto Alagna, Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Ludovic Tézier will be the heroes of a performance that no one will want to miss!

 

Jean-Louis Grinda

 

This performance is given as part of the ‘Festival dans les théâtres antiques de Méditerranée’, of which the Chorégies d’Orange are a founding member, an initiative of the Summit of the Two Shores.

 

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