[Met Performance] CID:162150
Samson et Dalila {82} Metropolitan Opera House: 03/3/1953.

(Debut: Ellen Meyer)


Metropolitan Opera House
March 3, 1953
Revised production


SAMSON ET DALILA {82}
Saint-Saëns-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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