PROGRAMME

16.06 / mo / 19:00

Camille Saint-Saëns. Samson and Delilah (Premiere)

Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre
Premiere

Music Director and Conductor: Vladimir Tkachenko
Stage Director: Anna Guseva
Coproduction of Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre and Diaghilev Festival

Delilah — Natalia Buklaga, Svetlana Kashirina
Samson — Boris Rudak, David Yesayan
High Priest — Eduard Morozov,
Viktor Pogudin
Abimelech — Timofey Pavlenko,
Alexander Egorov
Old Hebrew — Rustam Kasimov,
Oleg Budaratsky
Messenger — Anatoly Shliman,
Sergey Kostarev
First Philistine — Danis Khuzin, Sergey Vlasov
Second Philistine — Alexey Gerasimov,
Ernest Bagdasarov
Boy — Dmitry Dobryanskikh,
Miron Tkachenko
Other Delilah — Elizaveta Chernova,
Anastasia Abramova
Other Samson — Ruslan Ilzigitov,
Alexander Sushin

Chorus and Orchestra of Perm Opera
and Ballet Theatre
Аrtists of the Evgeny Panfilov Ballet company

16+
Samson and Delilah (1877) is a masterpiece of French musical theatre and a pinnacle of Camille Saint-Saëns’s (1835–1921) career. The opera tells the biblical story of the legendary hero Samson and the cunning seductress Delilah, who deceitfully uncovers the secret of his supernatural strength. Merging the grandeur of the Old Testament with the sensual intensity of the music, Saint-Saëns emerges in Samson and Delilah as the heir to the tradition of 18th-century French lyric tragedy. It is no coincidence that librettist Ferdinand Lemaire decided to base on a text by Voltaire, originally written in 1734 for Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Samson. A gem of the global opera repertoire, Samson and Delilah is a rare guest on Russian stages: the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre and the Diaghilev Festival present the first Russian production of this Saint-Saëns opera in recent years.
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Novaya Opera

3/2 Karetny Ryad (Hermitage Garden),Moscow 127006, Russia

Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)

Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris


Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam

Performers:

She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission

16+

From 21 to 24 September 2025, for the first time on the stage of the New Opera, Teodor Currentzis, soloists and artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir, as well as the musicAeterna Dance troupe, present the Diaghilev Festival production of Pascal Dusapin's opera Passion, directed by Anna Guseva. The Russian premiere of the opera took place in Perm in 2024.
Pascal Dusapin is one of France's leading contemporary composers, a student of avant-garde artists Olivier Messiaen and Iannis Xenakis. He started with experimental, complex music, but gradually softened his style. Passion is Dusapin's seventh opera, commissioned by the Aix-en-Provence Festival and first staged there in 2009. The Guardian's music critics have included Passion in the top 20 most important compositions of the 21st century.
Dusapin's work is a kind of commentary on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as the opera Orpheus by Monteverdi. The nameless hero and heroine engage in a dialogue on the border of life and death: the entire hour–and-a-half opera is a time-stretched moment of parting, a stopped moment. In the score, Dusapin's signature style is set off by soft references to the Italian and French Baroque. The music, which the composer himself describes as an 'emotional journey,' fluidly follows the characters' feelings: joy, fear, desire, pain, ecstasy, sadness, anger, and love subtly alternate within it. Bodily plastics become an integral part of Passion's production – as in early Baroque operas, dance interacts closely with singing.
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Novaya Opera

3/2 Karetny Ryad (Hermitage Garden),Moscow 127006, Russia

Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)

Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris


Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam

Performers:

She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission

16+

From 21 to 24 September 2025, for the first time on the stage of the New Opera, Teodor Currentzis, soloists and artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir, as well as the musicAeterna Dance troupe, present the Diaghilev Festival production of Pascal Dusapin's opera Passion, directed by Anna Guseva. The Russian premiere of the opera took place in Perm in 2024.
Pascal Dusapin is one of France's leading contemporary composers, a student of avant-garde artists Olivier Messiaen and Iannis Xenakis. He started with experimental, complex music, but gradually softened his style. Passion is Dusapin's seventh opera, commissioned by the Aix-en-Provence Festival and first staged there in 2009. The Guardian's music critics have included Passion in the top 20 most important compositions of the 21st century.
Dusapin's work is a kind of commentary on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as the opera Orpheus by Monteverdi. The nameless hero and heroine engage in a dialogue on the border of life and death: the entire hour–and-a-half opera is a time-stretched moment of parting, a stopped moment. In the score, Dusapin's signature style is set off by soft references to the Italian and French Baroque. The music, which the composer himself describes as an 'emotional journey,' fluidly follows the characters' feelings: joy, fear, desire, pain, ecstasy, sadness, anger, and love subtly alternate within it. Bodily plastics become an integral part of Passion's production – as in early Baroque operas, dance interacts closely with singing.
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Novaya Opera

3/2 Karetny Ryad (Hermitage Garden),Moscow 127006, Russia

Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)

Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris


Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam

Performers:

She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission

16+

From 21 to 24 September 2025, for the first time on the stage of the New Opera, Teodor Currentzis, soloists and artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir, as well as the musicAeterna Dance troupe, present the Diaghilev Festival production of Pascal Dusapin's opera Passion, directed by Anna Guseva. The Russian premiere of the opera took place in Perm in 2024.
Pascal Dusapin is one of France's leading contemporary composers, a student of avant-garde artists Olivier Messiaen and Iannis Xenakis. He started with experimental, complex music, but gradually softened his style. Passion is Dusapin's seventh opera, commissioned by the Aix-en-Provence Festival and first staged there in 2009. The Guardian's music critics have included Passion in the top 20 most important compositions of the 21st century.
Dusapin's work is a kind of commentary on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as the opera Orpheus by Monteverdi. The nameless hero and heroine engage in a dialogue on the border of life and death: the entire hour–and-a-half opera is a time-stretched moment of parting, a stopped moment. In the score, Dusapin's signature style is set off by soft references to the Italian and French Baroque. The music, which the composer himself describes as an 'emotional journey,' fluidly follows the characters' feelings: joy, fear, desire, pain, ecstasy, sadness, anger, and love subtly alternate within it. Bodily plastics become an integral part of Passion's production – as in early Baroque operas, dance interacts closely with singing.
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Novaya Opera

3/2 Karetny Ryad (Hermitage Garden),Moscow 127006, Russia

Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)

Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris


Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam

Performers:

She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission

16+

From 21 to 24 September 2025, for the first time on the stage of the New Opera, Teodor Currentzis, soloists and artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir, as well as the musicAeterna Dance troupe, present the Diaghilev Festival production of Pascal Dusapin's opera Passion, directed by Anna Guseva. The Russian premiere of the opera took place in Perm in 2024.
Pascal Dusapin is one of France's leading contemporary composers, a student of avant-garde artists Olivier Messiaen and Iannis Xenakis. He started with experimental, complex music, but gradually softened his style. Passion is Dusapin's seventh opera, commissioned by the Aix-en-Provence Festival and first staged there in 2009. The Guardian's music critics have included Passion in the top 20 most important compositions of the 21st century.
Dusapin's work is a kind of commentary on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as the opera Orpheus by Monteverdi. The nameless hero and heroine engage in a dialogue on the border of life and death: the entire hour–and-a-half opera is a time-stretched moment of parting, a stopped moment. In the score, Dusapin's signature style is set off by soft references to the Italian and French Baroque. The music, which the composer himself describes as an 'emotional journey,' fluidly follows the characters' feelings: joy, fear, desire, pain, ecstasy, sadness, anger, and love subtly alternate within it. Bodily plastics become an integral part of Passion's production – as in early Baroque operas, dance interacts closely with singing.
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