Saint-Saëns, Camille. (1835-1921). Samson et Dalia. Opera en 3 Actes. Paris: Durand, Schoenewerk & Cie. [1877]. First edition. Partition Chant & Piano Arrangée par l’Auteur. Piano-vocal score. 264 pp. [PN] 2186. 4to, contemporary half gilt-stamped red morocco and red boards slightly scuffed. With the attractive original chromolithographic title page and the printed dedication to Pauline Viardot. Fuld p. 122.
“Despite many precedents, most people expressed alarm at biblical subjects on the stage...The score was finished in 1876, and although no French theatre showed any interest, the opera was taken up enthusiastically by Liszt and mounted in Weimar in 1877 with Ferenczy as Samson and von Muller as Delilah; Eduard Lassen conducted” (Grove Opera, 4: 158).
“Despite many precedents, most people expressed alarm at biblical subjects on the stage...The score was finished in 1876, and although no French theatre showed any interest, the opera was taken up enthusiastically by Liszt and mounted in Weimar in 1877 with Ferenczy as Samson and von Muller as Delilah; Eduard Lassen conducted” (Grove Opera, 4: 158).
Saint-Saëns, Camille. (1835-1921). Samson et Dalia. Opera en 3 Actes. Paris: Durand, Schoenewerk & Cie. [1877]. First edition. Partition Chant & Piano Arrangée par l’Auteur. Piano-vocal score. 264 pp. [PN] 2186. 4to, contemporary half gilt-stamped red morocco and red boards slightly scuffed. With the attractive original chromolithographic title page and the printed dedication to Pauline Viardot. Fuld p. 122.
“Despite many precedents, most people expressed alarm at biblical subjects on the stage...The score was finished in 1876, and although no French theatre showed any interest, the opera was taken up enthusiastically by Liszt and mounted in Weimar in 1877 with Ferenczy as Samson and von Muller as Delilah; Eduard Lassen conducted” (Grove Opera, 4: 158).
“Despite many precedents, most people expressed alarm at biblical subjects on the stage...The score was finished in 1876, and although no French theatre showed any interest, the opera was taken up enthusiastically by Liszt and mounted in Weimar in 1877 with Ferenczy as Samson and von Muller as Delilah; Eduard Lassen conducted” (Grove Opera, 4: 158).