Massenet Thais
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.
- Year: 2008
- Country: Italy
- Genre: Music
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- Keyword: opera
- Director: Tiziano Mancini
- Cast: Barbara Frittoli, Lado Ataneli, Alessandro Liberatore, Maurizio Lo Piccolo, Nadezhda Serdjuk, Eleonora Buratto
