Théâtre national de l’Opéra Comique, 1 place Boieldieu - 75002 Paris
From March 17, 2025 to March 23, 2025
The tragic fate of the biblical character Samson on stage at the Opéra Comique.
From 17 to 23 March, the Opéra Comique presents ‘Samson’, a creation by musical director Raphaël Pichon and stage director Claus Guth, presented at the last Aix-en-Provence Festival. The show, inspired by Jean-Philippe Rameau's 1734 opera project based on a censored libretto by Voltaire, recounts the tragic fate of Samson, a biblical character with destructive impulses, adapted for our own times. With baritone Jarrett Ott as Samson and the Pygmalion Chorus and Orchestra.
Performance in French, surtitled in French and English.
