Samson et Dalila catches fire at the Teatro di San Carlo

Brian Jagde (Samson) and Anita Rachvelishvili (Dalila)

Brian Jagde (Samson) and Chorus

Anita Rachvelishvili (Dalila)

The Act 3 Bacchanale

The destruction of the temple

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 01 October 2022

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“Anita Rachvelishvili... conquered Samson not only with her warm and seductive singing”

Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 29 September 2022

Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila

Teatro di San Carlo

Dan Ettinger, Conductor

Damián Szifron, Director

Étienne Pluss, Set Designer

Gesine Völlm, Costume Designer

Olaf Freese, Lighting Designer

Brian Jagde, Samson

Anita Rachvelishvili, Dalila

Ernesto Petti, High Priest of Dagon

Gabriele Sagona, Abimélech

Roberto Scandiuzzi, The Old Hebrew

Mario Thomas, First Philistine

Sergio Valentino, Second Philistine

Antonio Mezzasalma, Philistine Messenger

Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.