Mare Haydorn
Samson et Dalila, Saint-Saëns, Dorset Opera Festival, fine singing that provides secure foundations for a shaky production
*** In Dorset Opera’s Samson et Dalila the voices are strong, the chorus exemplary, and Jeremy Carnall’s orchestra plays with real conviction. Rufus Martin gives us a single set, a heavily damaged temple, and it stays put all evening. At first I took it for the wrecked place of worship of the conquered Jews, which…