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 ...

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 ...

The orchestra was spellbinding in Samson Et Dalila at the Royal Opera House, but the violent production sadly has very little going for it. By DAVID MELLOR FOR EVENT. Published: 17:01 EDT, 4 June ...

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

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.

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.

Dalila (Edyta Kulczak) seduces Samson (Richard Cox) as the Old Hebrew (Joel Colman) looks on, in the New Orleans Opera Association production of Saint-Saens' 'Samson et Dalila.' (Photo by N.O ...

BroadwayWorld has a first look at SAMON ET DALILA at The Met Opera! Check out photos of the Darko Tresnjak directed production below!

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Modern-day Gaza is a territory fraught with drama, but you don't think of that drama operatically. The politics of the long Palestinian-Israeli struggle seem so worn, so exhausted, that they could ...