She did it!
During the two previous operas staged by Marie-Ève Signeyrole,
Nabucco
in Lille and
Don Giovanni
in Strasbourg, we had tasted the abundance of ideas of the director, while hoping that she prune to avoid overloading.
This is precisely what she has just achieved, at the Opéra du Rhin, in her production of
Samson et Dalila
, by Saint-Saëns.
His starting point is clear: in this story about the Hebrews and the Philistines, it is not religion that is in the foreground, but politics, through the struggle for power.
Starting from there, she transposes this timeless fable in a contemporary democracy very much like France, where the conservative party and that of the rebels are torn apart.
Faithful to her virtuoso use of video and to a scenography with cinematographic displacement, she makes biblical drama a political fiction worthy of Netflix.
The danger: ease, which prefers the first degree
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