Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah (Highlights); Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Tatiana's Letter Scene) (2005)

Leopold Stokowski's interpretations of excerpts from Saint-Saëns' Samson et Delilah and Tatiana's "Letter Scene" from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin with the Metropolitan Opera's leading stars of the '50s is absolutely irresistible. Risë Stevens is unbelievably hot as Delilah. Jan Peerce is incredibly heroic as Samson. Licia Albanese is wildly passionate as Tatiana. And Leopold Stokowski is all those things and more. Stevens, Peerce, and Albanese are stars and they turn in rich, vibrant performances, but they are acting in a ... Read More

Leopold Stokowski's interpretations of excerpts from Saint-Saëns' Samson et Delilah and Tatiana's "Letter Scene" from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin with the Metropolitan Opera's leading stars of the '50s is absolutely irresistible. Risë Stevens is unbelievably hot as Delilah. Jan Peerce is incredibly heroic as Samson. Licia Albanese is wildly passionate as Tatiana. And Leopold Stokowski is all those things and more. Stevens, Peerce, and Albanese are stars and they turn in rich, vibrant performances, but they are acting in a Leopold Stokowski Production. Stokowski vastly expands Saint-Saëns' opera a widescreen, Technicolor, 3-D Biblical epic full of flaring nostrils, jutting jaws, and heaving bosoms. Stokowski switches Tchaikovsky's tender heroine into a hysterical neurotic. And yet both Stokowski's interpretations are absolutely irresistible precisely because they are so extravagantly colorful, so emotionally heightened, so extraordinarily passionate that they will not permit themselves to be ignored or... Read Less

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