Thais
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 8, 2008
Closed Jan 8, 2009
Opened Dec 8, 2008
Closed Jan 8, 2009
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Running Time:
3hr. 20min.
3hr. 20min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Renée Fleming plays the Egyptian courtesan in search of spiritual sustenance. Thomas Hampson is the monk who falls from grace. Massenet's sensual score is presented in a production by John Cox that originated at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
RE:Thais and David Finkle's review
Im a resident of Maine and live in a town in which we are lucky to be able to view the HD broadcasts on the big screen. David Finkles review is as dry as the astoundingly beautiful MINIMALIST desert set of this opera.
David, with all due respect, you need a vacation. Perhaps youve covered so many operas youve forgotten about the absolute joy that can be felt in the hearts and minds of opera viewers all around the world. Granted, many of us are not specialists in opera performance and perspectives. I found this performance stellar, enchanting, riveting and deeply beautiful, in every way. For anyone reading this comment, I highly recommend viewing opera on the big screen because we can see and feel EVERYTHING set before us. I left the theater feeling in love with both Fleming and Hampson, in love with the musical score, with David Chan and with HD opera. A VERY satisfying and economically friendly experience.
Reviewed by beeline2sheeline
on Monday, Dec 22nd, 2008
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The Egyptian desert serving as ascetic home to the priests and nuns in Jules Massenet's 1894 opera Thais, adapted from Anatole France's satirical novel, can be taken as a metaphor for the dry stretches found not only in much of the composer's writing, but also in John Cox's Metropolitan Opera production. There simply isn't a lot to look at: some dunes, a palm tree or three (the palms are gilded as if supposedly prospering in the Alexandria locale) and a couple of staircases for star Renee Fleming to descend in sumptuous Christian Lacroix costumes.
This slightly cheesy-looking 2002 undertaking has been borrowed from the Lyric Opera Chicago as a Fleming showcase, and patrons who toughe[...]