Camille Saint-Saëns

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saens'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-siecle masterpiece, not performed at Covent Garden since 2004. Elina Garanca stars as the Philistine Dalila, SeokJong Baek as the inspiring Jewish hero Samson, and Antonio Pappano conducts the...