When mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca and tenor Roberto Alagna
joined forces for a new production of Carmen at
the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another
sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of
Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson
et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction
of a Musical in 2014 for A
Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut
directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the
last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir
Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.