Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Spoleto Festival Orchestra will perform during the opera “Thais.” Credit: Spoleto Festival USA ...

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Contrasts play an important role in many of Jules Massenet’s operas, in one form or another. Werther sees the passionate and idealistic title poet in relentless pursuit of a sober young woman bound to ...

The next high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Jules Massenet's romantic opera "Thais" at 11 a.m. Saturday at Town Plaza Cinema. The encore broadcast will be at 7 p.m ...

Of all the operas that make women suffer — and there are many — Massenet's "Thaïs" is one of the most gamy and unsettling. A religious devotee, Athanaël, harbors strong sexual feelings for Thaïs, a ...

The opera is best known for its instrumental Meditation for violin, given an exquisitely beautiful account by the Opera Australia Orchestra’s concertmaster Jun Yi Ma. Based on an 1890 novel by Anatole ...

As the old song says: When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, something’s gotta give. In Jules Massenet’s ultra-Romantic opera, “Thais,” that irresistible force is the title character, a ...