Saint-Saëns’s opera tells a version of the familiar biblical story about the Israelite warrior succumbing to the charms of the Philistine woman who betrays him to her religious leaders. Imaginatively ...

From the classical archive, 27 April 1909: Camille Saint-Saëns tells the Observer why he has Queen Alexandra to thank for the lifting of a ban on productions of Samson et Dalila The Opera at Covent ...

It’s a great injustice that French composer Camille Saint-Saëns is most widely remembered for a mere handful of his hundreds of works. Ironically, the evergreen “Carnival of the Animals,” among the ...

The Royal Opera House has announced that Richard Jones' epic 2022 production of Camille Saint-Saëns' operatic masterpiece Samson et Dalila is available on Royal Opera House Stream - the 60th ...

Samson and Delilah is a three-act French opera. It is based on the story of Samson and Delilah in the Old Testament of the Bible. The words and story of the opera were written by Ferdinand Lemaire.

This is the most subtly and expertly conducted performance of this work to appear on CD, excellent as others have been in this respect, and also the best played and sung. Chung’s achievement is to ...

So here we are in troubled Gaza, in Biblical times, the Israelites victims of (to them) infidels - in this case not Muslims, but Philistines who worship the god Dagon. Plus ça change, you say. A ...

Richard Jones and Antonio Pappano collaborate on an impressive staging of Saint-Saëns’ biblical epic Saint-Saëns’ biblical epic makes a welcome return to the Covent Garden stage, with Richard Jones in ...

Richard Jones’s production of Samson et Dalila polarised opinion when it opened at Covent Garden in 2022. I didn’t see it in the theatre, but can’t say that I entirely warmed to it on DVD. It has ...