Name: Samson et Dalila, op. 47
Start: 2018-05-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-05-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Mariinsky Theatre

Organization

Conductor

Emmanuel Villaume

Chorus master

Andrei Petrenko

Stage director

Irkin Gabitov

Assistant Director

Mikhail Smirnov

Tenor

José Cura

Samson

Mezzo-soprano

Olga Borodina

Delilah

Baritone

Vladimir Moroz

High Priest of Dagon

Bass

Mikhail Petrenko

Abimelech

Yuri Vorobiev

Old Hebrew

Dmitry Demidchik

Philistine messenger

Stanislav Leontiev

First Philistine

Nikolai Kamensky

Second Philistine

Mariinsky Theatre

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The Mariinsky Chorus

Orchestra

Orchester des Mariinski-Theaters

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

Saint Petersburg

Russia

JOSÉ CURA, "Samson et Dalila" -- Mariinsky Theatre, St.Petersburg,  2018  
To the 30th anniversary for the creative activity of People's Artist  Olga Borodina. 

        JOSÉ CURA, "Samson et Dalila" -- St.Petersburg in 2018  
                                  May 5th -- Mariinsky Theatre 
         HISTORIC PERFORMANCE of LEGENDARY JOSÉ CURA 
LIVE "ON-line broadcast" by Mariinsky TV as concert performance.
To the 30th anniversary for the creative activity of People's Artist  Olga Borodina. 

Mariinsky Theatre ---- The renowned singer JOSE CURA comes to St.Petersburg specifically to perform in this production. Cura and Borodina have long collaborated as artists. They made their joint debut in the production of Carmen staged at the San Francisco Opera in 1996. Their voices can be heard on the recording of Samson et Dalila made by the Londen Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Colin Davis. Cura and Borodina also sang Samson et Dalila together at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2003~2004. The performance was conducted by Emmanuel Villaume. He was also invited to take part in the on-stage celebration of Olga Borodina's artistic career at the Mariinsky Theatre. 

Venue: Mariinsky Theatre, St.Petersburg, Russia
Date: Saturday, 5th, May, 2018

Samson et Dalila Saint-Saëns

Public

Samson and Delilah

Approved

JOSÉ CURA DEMONSTRATED THE ART OF DRAMATIC TENOR
St. Petersburg statements...08,05,2018 ----- Jose Cura demonstrated the art of a dramatic tenor, greatly shifting his accent to a dramatic one, as if he were cramped in the rules of the melodic line. The singer-actor, he very visibly held that part of the opera in which his hero was already blinded by his enemies. His singing bordered on sobbing, fueled by the "deadly anguish" in which Samson confessed. Cura decided the scene of the temple's destruction with surgical precision, resorting to the concise gesture of sharply raised hands: the pagan temple of Dagon was destroyed, detonating in deafening applause. 
The audience after the final scene did not just explode with a deafening ovation - it roared like a football fans howling when they scored a long-awaited goal.!!!  

         HISTORIC PERFORMANCE of LEGENDARY JOSÉ CURA 
alina1793...05,05,2018 ----- Today was the historic performance of a tenor, in the past, partner O. Borodina on recording her favorite opera, the legendary Jose Cura, who brilliantly performed Samson's part and gave a real master class on the performance of a lyric tenor part! Our tenors have much to strive for and to learn from!

English

Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saëns, Sat 05 May 2018, From (2018/2018), Directed by Irkin Gabitov,, Conductor Emmanuel Villaume, Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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