Review: The Met’s New ‘samson’ Succeeds Only As Kitsch

ANTHONY TOMMASINI, NY Times: Music
Tue, 09/25/2018 - 10:00am

The company opened its season with an inert, old-fashioned staging of Saint-Saëns’s “Samson et Dalila,” with Roberto Alagna and Elina Garanca.

Topics: music

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