Massenet Thais
2008
2h 19m
Music
Overview
There's an uncompromising clarity to Blu-ray audio and video that really does bring the splendour of grand opera right into the living room. So it's all the more frustrating to get a compromised production as the final product. Jules Massenet's 1894 tragedy about a sex goddess humbled by an insistent Cenobite monk isn't produced very often, because of a demanding lead role and some difficult staging issues. But the music is gorgeous from beginning to end. When you have a great diva at centre stage, the three acts go by in a flash.
Director
Tiziano Mancini
Top Cast
Barbara Frittoli
Thais
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Lado Ataneli
Athanael
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Alessandro Liberatore
Nicias
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Maurizio Lo Piccolo
Palemon
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Nadezhda Serdjuk
Albine
Eleonora Buratto
Crobyle
Ketevan Kemoklidze
Myrtale
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Gianandrea Noseda
Conductor
