Organization

Singer

Tenor

SeokJong Baek

Samson

Mezzo-soprano

Elīna Garanča

Delilah

Baritone

Lukasz Goliński

High Priest of Dagon

Alan Pingarron

First Philistine

Bass

Chuma Sijeqa

Second Philistine

Thando Mjandana

Philistine messenger

Stage director

Richard Jones

Conductor

Antonio Pappano

Lighting designer

Andreas Fuchs

Costume designer

Nicky Gillibrand

Set designer

Hyemi Shin

Choreographer

Lucy Burge

Blaise Malaba

Abimelech

Royal Opera House

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Others

Chorus of the Royal Opera House

French

Samson et Dalila, op. 47 -  (Samson and Delilah)

London

United Kingdom

Main Stage

Samson et Dalila Saint-Saëns

Public

Samson and Delilah

English

Approved

Discover all there is to know about Richard Jones’s new production of Samson et Dalila ahead of its premiere – the first new production of the opera at Covent Garden for over 40 years. Join the cast and creative team for an evening of discussion and live performance.

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. Elīna Garanča stars as the Philistine Dalila, Nicky Spence 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 will be an opera evening to remember.

Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saëns, From (2022/2022), Directed by Richard Jones,, Conductor Antonio Pappano, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

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