
Opéra National de Paris
SAMSON ET DALILA
opera in three acts
performed in French (the performance will have synchronised Russian and English supertitles)
Music by Camille Saint-Saёns
Libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Stage Director and Set Designer: Yannis Kokkos
Costume Designer: Yannis Kokkos and Paola Mariani
Dramatist: Anne Blancard
Lighting Designer: Michael Bauer
Video Designer: Eric Duranteau
Musical Preparation: Natalia Mordashova
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko
Director and movement assistant: Natalie van Parys
Assistant designer: Barbara Creutz
Choreography: Maxim Petrov
French Language Coach: Ksenia Klimenko
Battle scenes staged by Sergei Mishenev
Premiere: 2 December 1877, Grand Ducal Theatre, Weimar
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 19 November 1896
Premiere of this production: 25 May 2016
Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes
The performance has one interval
Age category: 12+
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