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giuliacucina

Days 3 and 4

Dec 22, 2008 09:56

3: I spent the afternoon with my father at the Metropolitan Opera's matinee performance of Massenet's Thais starring a Christian Lacroix-clad Renee Fleming. What a lovely way to spend a chilly Saturday afternoon, warm and cozy and listening to beautiful music. The violin solo in the middle was so stunning that the soloist took his own curtain call ( Read more... )

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zuigiber December 22 2008, 16:32:15 UTC

IS Thais in French? For some reason I think I've seen that...but my lack of opera knowledge I assumed they were always in Italian. Could be a totally different one and I'm just coinfused...it's still early out here

giuliacucina December 22 2008, 16:44:06 UTC

It is. It takes place in Alexandria, and is about a beautiful courtesan named Thais. A Christian dude tries to cure her of her "evil" ways, and she follows him through the desert to a convent. He realizes later that he loves her and goes to rescue her from the convent, but she is dying when he arrives.

Although opera is believed to have originated in Italy, it is now presented in many different languages. I once saw Boris Gudonov, which is in Russian.