«Самсон и Далила» Сен-Санса
Омри Ницан, Амир Низар Зуаби (режиссёры-постановщики), Томаш Нетопил (дирижёр) – С Торстеном Керлем (Самсон), Марианной Тарасовой (Далила) – Опера Фландрии
Состав
Омри Ницан — Режиссёр-постановщик
Амир Низар Зуаби — Режиссёр-постановщик
Симфонический оркестр Оперы Фландрии
Хор оперы Фландрии
Томаш Нетопил
Торстен Керл — Samson
Марианна Тарасова — Dalila
Никола Миялович — High Priest of Dagon
Мильчо Боровинов — Abimélech, Satrap of Gaza
Тиджи Фавейц — And old Hebrew
Торстен Бютнер — First Philistine
Онно Пелс — Second Philistine
Гейс Ван Дер Линден — Messenger
О программе
Staged by the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp in 2009, Saint-Saëns's Samson and Delilah—a story of doomed love set against the backdrop of cultural conflict between Hebrews and Philistines—is relocated to the contemporary Middle East. Directors Omri Nitzan and Amir Nizar Zuabi explore the tensions between different nations and religions, and the complex oppressor-oppressed relationship. "We tried to move away from the quasi-biblical interpretation,” say Nitzan and Zuabi, “and to place the story in today's world to explain its political aspects better.... Acts of terror by a state will lead to acts of terror against a state, which in turn will lead to more terror by the state and this completes the vicious circle."
Backed by the Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Vlaamse Opera under the baton of Czech conductor Tomáš Netopil, young German tenor Torsten Kerl plays the Samson to Russian mezzo-soprano Marianna Tarasova’s Delilah. The music’s kaleidoscopic colours are evoked with sensitivity and lyricism by the orchestra and singers, unfolding the dramatic story in all its tragic beauty.
Samson and Delilah was originally intended to be an oratorio, but as his ideas developed, Saint-Saëns was persuaded to turn it into an opera. In 1877, Franz Liszt arranged for its world premiere in Weimar, Germany. In 1892 it made its way to the Paris Opera, where it was played more than five hundred times over the next thirty years.
