Met Opera Opening Night Gala 2018 September 24

SAINT-SAËNS Samson et Dalila – Met Opera Opening Night Gala September 24
New production premiere: 
When mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca and tenor Roberto Alagnajoined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of Saint-Saens’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won aTony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years. 

Met Opera Opening Night Gala 2018 September 24

Met Opera Opening Night Gala 2018 September 24

CONDUCTOR- Mark Elder

PERFORMING ALL DATES

Met Opera Opening Night Gala 2018 September 24

SAMSON-Roberto Alagna

PERFORMING SEP 24,28 OCT 1,5,9,13,16,20

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When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. 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 Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.

Production a gift of the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa, and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, PhD. and Oscar Tang

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

Photo by Vincent Peters / Met Opera

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Published by Nadia Kovarskaya