Samson and Delilah
The definitive Delilah of our day, Olga Borodina has been praised by Allan Ulrich in the San Francisco Chronicle for her "gloriously voluptuous singing." The Russian mezzo-soprano reprises her seductive performance as the tantaliz...
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"Samson and Delilah is a great Biblical story, and the opera has really wonderful music, so in short I do like the opera very much. And I found much to enjoy to this San Francisco performance. It does have two failings. The performance does start off rather dull, lacking in urgency and too much focus on sentimentality. Clifton Forbis has some fine dramatic moments, but his Samson is uninspired with some dry and unmusical tone. Patrick Summers' conducting is impressive at times, but on the whole unexciting and overly-relaxed. However, the costumes and sets are colourful with a very Cecil B ..."
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The definitive Delilah of our day, Olga Borodina has been praised by Allan Ulrich in the San Francisco Chronicle for her "gloriously voluptuous singing." The Russian mezzo-soprano reprises her seductive performance as the tantaliz...