Massenet Thais (2008)
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
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Barbara Frittoli as Thais |
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Lado Ataneli as Athanael |
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Alessandro Liberatore as Nicias |
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Maurizio Lo Piccolo as Palemon |
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Nadezhda Serdjuk as Albine |
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Eleonora Buratto as Crobyle |
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Ketevan Kemoklidze as Myrtale |
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Gianandrea Noseda as Conductor |
| Crew | Jules Massenet | Compositor |
| Directing | Tiziano Mancini | Director |
| Directing | Stefano Poda | Stage Director |
