Massenet Thais

Massenet Thais — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 1, 2008
• Runtime
• 139 min
• Genres
• Music
• Director
• Tiziano Mancini

Massenet Thais — Cast

Barbara Frittoli Thais

L

Lado Ataneli Athanael

A

Alessandro Liberatore Nicias

M

Maurizio Lo Piccolo Palemon

N

Nadezhda Serdjuk Albine Eleonora Buratto Crobyle Ketevan Kemoklidze Myrtale

G

Gianandrea Noseda Conductor