{"id":1540,"date":"2026-05-31T21:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:30:59","slug":"samson-et-dalila-at-staatsoper-unter-den-linden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/2026\/05\/31\/samson-et-dalila-at-staatsoper-unter-den-linden\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Samson et Dalila<\/em> at Staatsoper unter den Linden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For four performances on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staatsoper-berlin.de\/en\/veranstaltungen\/samson-et-dalila.7651\/#event-123557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 7, 10 and 12<\/a>, Nicolas Test\u00e9 will sing the role of the Old Hebrew in Saint-Sa\u00ebns&#8217; <em>Samson et Dalila<\/em> at the Staatsoper Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>The literary source for Ferdinand Lemaire\u2019s libretto was the Old Testament\u2019s Book of Judges, which tells of the Israelite\u2019s oppression in Palestinian Gaza. One of the most popular Romantic French-language operas, with its lyrical descriptions and great choral tableaux, it is now restaged by the Argentine film director and screenwriter Dami\u00e1n Szifron. Alexander Soddy will conduct the performances and the cast will feature Roberto Alagna and Aigul Akhmetshina in the title roles.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For four performances on July 4, 7, 10 and 12, Nicolas Test\u00e9 will sing the role of the Old Hebrew in Saint-Sa\u00ebns&#8217; Samson et Dalila at the Staatsoper Berlin. The literary source for Ferdinand Lemaire\u2019s libretto was the Old Testament\u2019s Book of Judges, which tells of the Israelite\u2019s oppression in Palestinian Gaza. One of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}