The High Priest of Dagon, angry with Samson after he kills the Philistine governor Ambimélech, plots to destroy Samson by utilizing the beauty of his former lover, Dalila. A passionate 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 ...

For an opera about an action hero, Camille Saint-Saens’s “Samson et Dalila” is remarkably action-free: Even the climactic moment when Delilah shears the hero’s hair takes place offstage.

Darko Tresnjak's 'Samson et Dalila,' which opened the Metropolitan Opera's 2018 season, somehow manages to be tacky and dull all at once.

I appreciate that Samson Et Dalila is a nasty and violent story of lust, betrayal, torture and death, but it surely can be done - indeed has been done - a bit more stylishly than here.

Well, no one could accuse the opening of the Met's new season, with Darko Trasnjak's production of Saint-Saens' SAMSON ET DALILA, to Ferdinand Lemaire's libretto, of being drab. Starry, certainly.

Talk about your weapons of mass seduction. Olga Borodina, as the Philistine uber-temptress Delilah in “Samson et Dalila,” has them all, and they’re hidden in plain sight.When we first behold ...

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 ...

Depuis 45 ans, la National Gallery de Londres abrite un tableau longtemps considéré comme un chef-d’œuvre perdu du peintre ...

Samson et Dalila Tenor Gregory Kunde Proves a Hero in Every Sense of the Word in the Met’s ‘Samson’ In this revival, Anita Rachvelishvili and Gregory Kunde strike sparks in a love-hate story.