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It is catalogued under topics including 1877 operas, Cultural depictions of Samson and French-language operas.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Librettist
- Ferdinand Lemaire
- Language
- French
- Based on
- Samson and Delilah
- Premiere
- 2 December 1877 ( 1877-12-02 ) , Ducal Theatre , Weimar
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Wikidata facts
- Genre
- opera
- Based on
- Judges
- Composer
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Librettist
- Ferdinand Lemaire
- Image
- Margherita Palli - bozzetto per Samson et Dalila di Camille Saint-Saëns - Atto II (1997) - Archivio Storico Teatro Regio Torino WIKITRT1353.jpg
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- date of first performance
- 1877-12-02
- Commons category
- Samson et Dalila (opera)
- language of work or name
- French
- publication date
- 1850-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- title
- Samson et Dalila
- form of creative work
- opera
- number of parts of this work
- 3
- inception
- 1876-00-00
- described by source
- Wikitólica
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Encyclopedic overview
Samson and Delilah (French: Samson et Dalila), Op. 47, is a grand opera in three acts and four scenes by Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire. It was first performed in Weimar at the Grossherzogliches (Grand Ducal) Theater (now the Staatskapelle Weimar) on 2 December 1877 in a German translation.
The opera is based on the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah found in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament. It is the only opera by Saint-Saëns that is regularly performed. The second act love scene in Delilah's tent is one of the set pieces that define French opera. Two of Delilah's arias are particularly well known: "Printemps qui commence" ("Spring begins") and "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" ("My heart opens itself to your voice", also known as "Softly awakes my heart"), the latter of which is one of the most popular recital pieces in the mezzo-soprano/contralto repertoire.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samson and Delilah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.