[Met Performance] CID:162150



Samson et Dalila
Metropolitan Opera House, Tue, March 3, 1953

Debut : Ellen Meyer




Samson et Dalila (82)
Camille Saint-Saëns | Ferdinand Lemaire
Samson
Ramon Vinay

Dalila
Risë Stevens

High Priest
Sigurd Björling

Abimélech
Norman Scott

Old Hebrew
Luben Vichey

Philistine
Paul Franke

Philistine
George Cehanovsky

Messenger
Emery Darcy

Dance
Janet Collins

Dance
Loren Hightower

Dance
Rex Cooper


Conductor
Fausto Cleva


Director
Dino Yannopoulos

Set Designer
Ellen Meyer [Debut]

Choreographer
Zachary Solov





Samson et Dalila received eleven performances this season.
Ellen Meyer revised the sets, utilizing elements from the 1936 production by Koeck-Meyer Studios,
but was not credited in the program.

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