ASO- SAMSON AND DALILA

Posted by Layla on June 6, 2015 in LIVE OPERA

CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS

RUN TIME: 2 hours

2014-2015 ASO SEASON

JUNE 6 @ 7:30 PM

It’s the ultimate story of love, seduction, and betrayal — Samson and Delilah. According to the Old Testament, Samson’s great strength embodied in his flowing hair made him invincible, until he met his greatest weakness in a woman named Dalila. She seduced him and reduced him to a mere mortal by cutting off his mighty mane, and he was blinded and imprisoned. Music Director Robert Spano conducts Saint-Saëns’s grand opera in our grand finale of the 2014–15 season, featuring tenor Stuart Skelton as the hero, Samson, and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the seductress, Dalila.

MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Robert Spano

PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR: Donald Runnicles

DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES: Norman Mackenzie

CAST: Stephanie Blythe, Stuart Shelton, Timothy Bruno, Greer Grimsley, Bradley Howard, Stephen Ozcomert, Grant Knox, Nathan Stark

CAST SHEET & SYNOPSIS:

POSSE PHOTOS:

The ASO

Layla and Mom

The end of the performance

Awesome

Stephanie Blythe taking her bow with the rest of the cast

Closeup of Stephanie Blythe

Meredith’s Dad Sandy and the other violinists taking their bow

Stephanie Blythe applauding the chorus and the ASO

Stephanie Blythe and Layla

Stephanie signing Layla’s opera scrapbook next to Isabel Leonard

Layla and Stephanie having a moment

Much to say…

Still writing….

Layla with Jake- the man who orchestrated the Stephanie Blythe meeting

Layla and Jake on cloud 9- the coolest experience

Closeup of pure joy

Dramatic happiness