You can count on Odyssey Opera to come up with not just a season of rare and unusual works but a season of rare and unusual works connected by a unified theme. This season the theme is the Tudors, ...

A new recording of Saint-Saens's opera HENRY VIII, by Odyssey Opera, has come my way. It is a complete version of the work which is dated 1883. Odyssey Opera is a company dedicated to the performance ...

Samson and Delilah is a three-act French opera. It is based on the story of Samson and Delilah in the Old Testament of the Bible. The words and story of the opera were written by Ferdinand Lemaire.

Donizetti’s so-called “Tudor Trilogy”--ANNA BOLENA, MARIA STUARDA and ROBERTO DEVEREUX (aka, “the one about Elizabeth I”)--suddenly has some competition on British history. Oh, I’m not talking about ...

French opera “Samson and Delilah” by Camille Saint-Saëns. The production of “Samson and Delilah” continues the Virginia Opera “First of Firsts” series. The series aims to produce “an opera completely ...

Samson (Clifton Forbis) and Dalila (Olga Borodina) in a scene from the Dallas Opera's production of Samson and Dalila.(Karen Almond / The Dallas Opera) So here we are in troubled Gaza, in Biblical ...

Elina Garanca plays Dalila in Samson et Dalila. Bring on the dancing. The Metropolitan Opera has a hot new production of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah) complete with ...

“For hours after Jean-Philippe Collard had left Camille Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto a pile of shards on the Hollywood Bowl stage,” Alan Rich wrote in L.A. Weekly in the summer of 1999, “I racked ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...