Massenet Thais
2008-01-01 | 139 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
Don Pasquale (Royal Opera House)
-
Rusalka
-
Andrea Chenier
-
La Traviata
-
Die Walküre
-
Rigoletto
-
Arabella
-
Abesalom and Eteri
-
Świat w operze
-
The Phantom of the Opera
-
Puccini: La bohème
-
Fidelio
-
Rossini: La Cenerentola
-
Otello
-
Così fan tutte
-
Puccini - Madama Butterfly
-
Massenet - Thais
-
Rusalka
-
The Magic Flute
-
Puccini: Turandot