Samson (2024)

ALL 07/06/2024 (en) Music 146 Min
  • Release
    07/06/2024
  • Production
    Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
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  • Original title
    Samson
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Aix-en-Provence 2024

Overview

When, in 1733, Voltaire, the most brilliant mind of his day, collaborates with Rameau, its greatest composer, in undertaking an ambitious reform of operatic practice, the result is the biblical opera Samson. But the libretto is condemned and the score lost – possibly reworked here and there in later compositions. Claus Guth and Raphaël Pichon, haunted by this interesting project that had turned into one of the most intriguing failures in operatic history, have tried, not to recreate the letter, but to revive the spirit: to marry a strong, noble libretto with the most eloquent music. Supporting Jarrett Ott, Jacquelyn Stucker and Lea Desandre in the principal roles, the Pygmalion chorus and orchestra become important actors in a fresco that is both sublime and astonishingly modern.

  1. Claus Guth

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Samson (2024) 146 Min

ALL 07/06/2024 (en)
Music
  • Release 07/06/2024
  • Production
    Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
  • Original title Samson
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Aix-en-Provence 2024

Overview

When, in 1733, Voltaire, the most brilliant mind of his day, collaborates with Rameau, its greatest composer, in undertaking an ambitious reform of operatic practice, the result is the biblical opera Samson. But the libretto is condemned and the score lost – possibly reworked here and there in later compositions. Claus Guth and Raphaël Pichon, haunted by this interesting project that had turned into one of the most intriguing failures in operatic history, have tried, not to recreate the letter, but to revive the spirit: to marry a strong, noble libretto with the most eloquent music. Supporting Jarrett Ott, Jacquelyn Stucker and Lea Desandre in the principal roles, the Pygmalion chorus and orchestra become important actors in a fresco that is both sublime and astonishingly modern.

  1. Claus Guth

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer