Thaïs
by Jules Massenet
The libretto in French of Thaïs can be found at
http://www.karadar.it/Librettos/massenet_thais.html
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"Massenet's Thaïs - about a Christian fundamentalist who sets out to save the soul of a prostitute, then finds his faith undermined by sexuality while she achieves sainthood - is among the perviest of operas," wrote Tim Ashley in The Guardian, 29 November 2002.
Review of Chicago performance in Chicago Sun-Times of December 16, 2002
"Opera Theatre [of Saint Louis]'s new production [of Thaïs] makes a winning case for this French rarity," says a review dated June 20, 2003, in the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch.
Artistic director of the Opéra de Montréal Bernard Labadie talks about Thaïs in an article at scena.org.
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