This temple is dated to the 9th century B.C., so it’s later than Samson, but it is more evidence of such Philistine structures with two central pillars, in conjunction with the other three ...

It evokes the final act of the biblical judge Samson, who, blind and bound by the Philistines, found the strength to bring down the pillars of the temple of Dagon, killing his enemies —and ...

Richard Sasanow, BroadwayWorld: Trasnjak's choices for the finale, where Samson regains his strength and demolishes Dagon's temple, however, were a real disappointment.

Just as Samson asked God for strength one last time to bring down the pillars that supported the foundations of the Temple of Dagon in Gaza where 3000 people died (including all the rulers of the ...

Well, no one could accuse the opening of the Met's new season, with Darko Trasnjak's production of Saint-Saens' SAMSON ET DALILA, to Ferdinand Lemaire's libretto, of being drab. Starry, certainly ...

Choreographer Lucy Burge even entrusts her with what is usually the (musically exquisite) Dance of Dagon’s Priestesses in Act One, showing us Dalila in trying to move in on Samson hassled by Hebrew ...

A SECESSIONIST SAMSON. Share full article Nov. 15, 1860 The New York Times Archives ...