As the central couple, SeokJong Baek and Aigul Akhmetshina are dramatically persuasive and expressive in this revival of Richard Jones’s staging that works hard to make Saint-Saëns’ often dramatically ...

Sometimes operas – even immensely powerful ones – simply don’t make complete sense, and we can see why Dr Johnson dismissed ...

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With Aigul Akhmetshina and Seokjong Baek in the title roles, there are reasons to be optimistic, but The Royal Opera’s ...

The French really know how to write sensual music,” swoons Aigul Akhmetshina. The 29-year-old Russian mezzo-soprano is ...

Samson et Dalila (whom we know better as Delilah) is a curiously patchy work by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.

Tenor John Kun Park brings a powerful voice and an energetic physicality to the role of Samson. Courtesy Otak Jump. The little company that could is at it again, presenting the kind of opera that even ...

This revival of Richard Jones’s 2022 production of Samson et Dalila excels on a musical level with spectacular performances ...

Gregory Kunde will sing Samson in the March 16, 19, and 23 performances of Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila, replacing Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is ill. American tenor Gregory Kunde made his Met role ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: This is KPBS midday edition. I am Maureen Cavanaugh. If you ever wondered why they call it grand Opera all you need to do is witness the production and the San Diego Opera will ...

The source of this popular opera is a single chapter in the biblical Book of Judges, and the brevity of the tale did nothing to prevent it from becoming one of the world’s great stories of love (or at ...

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.