Strength comes in many forms in the Royal Opera’s revelatory new Samson et Dalila; and two star singers in the ascendant hit all the high notes
amson had form by the time he fell for Delilah. The long-haired Israelite warrior had already transgressed with a woman in the next village, and slept with a harlot. Delilah the Philistine was his undoing. This archetypal story of a hero with a fatal flaw has inspired paintings and films but only one well-known opera, by Camille Saint-Saëns. His, a French spectacle on a grand scale, was last staged at Covent Garden in 2004.
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