Peerless mezzo and conductor, promising tenor at the heart of this hard-to-stage hybrid by David Nice Friday, 27 May 2022 Share The taunting of Samson in the temple of Dagon, with Elina Garanča as an ...

Peerless mezzo and conductor, promising tenor at the heart of this hard-to-stage hybrid by David Nice Friday, 27 May 2022 Share The taunting of Samson in the temple of Dagon, with Elina Garanča as an ...

Richard Sasanow, BroadwayWorld: Trasnjak's choices for the finale, where Samson regains his strength and demolishes Dagon's temple, however, were a real disappointment.

In this version, Dalila became fascinated by Samson’s fervor and eventually partnered with him in the destruction of the Temple of Dagon—not an act of God but rather a terrorist bombing.

The High Priest of Dagon, angry with Samson after he kills the Philistine governor Ambimélech, plots to destroy Samson by utilizing the beauty of his former lover, Dalila.

And if you’re going to go the old-Hollywood-spectacle route, as Mr. Tresnjak does, you can’t get away with the pitiful anticlimax of his finale, which dispatches the Temple of Dagon with a ...

The High Priest of Dagon comes from the Philistine temple and curses Samson's prodigious strength, leaving with the slain man's bier. An Old Hebrew praises the returning Samson.

The fight between Samson and Abimelech, the commander of the Philistines, looked particularly stiff. Assaf did line everyone up at the end of the opera so that the pillars of the temple could fall ...

Mr. KEITT obviously borrows his metaphor from the story of Samson, and discovers analogies between the temple of Liberty and that of Dagon.