Name: Thaïs
Start: 2021-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Salle Garnier

Admin

Organization

Śpiewak

Baryton

Ludovic Tézier

Athanaël

Tenor

Jean-François Borras

Nicias

Philippe Kahn

Palémon

Sopran

Marina Rebeka

Thaïs

Cassandre Berthon

Crobyle

Mezzosopran

Valentine Lemercier

Myrtale

Marie Gautrot

Albine

Jennifer Courcier

La charmeuse

Dyrygent

Jean-Yves Ossonce

Reżyseria

Jean-Louis Grinda

Scenografia

Laurent Castaingt

Kostiumy

Jorge Jara

Wideo

Gabriel Grinda

Reżyseria światła

Choreografia

Eugénie Andrin

Przygotowanie chóru

Stefano Visconti

Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Orchestra

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Monaco

Monako

"Dare to come, you who defy Venus!" cries Thaïs, the priestess of Venus, to ascetic monk Athanaël, determined to save her soul by converting her to Christianity. This challenge precipitates the action of Thaïs, Massenet's operatic masterpiece, staged here by Jean-Louis Grinda at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo with Jean-Yves Ossonce conducting!

Athanäel's attempts to save Thaïs from eternal damnation lead him to an unexpected fate as the young priestess, bored with her life of pleasures, aspires to something greater. Convinced by Athanaël's entreaties, she ends up devoting herself to God and dying in a convent—to the great sorrow of Athanaël, who realizes too late his love for her, repudiating his vows and asserting that "nothing is true but life and the love of human beings." Massenet's rich emotional landscape opposes two complex characters with divergent motivations who briefly cross paths on their way to opposite destinies… Celebrated soloists Marina Rebeka and Ludovic Tézier more than do justice to this sublime score, a veritable treasure of French opera.

Photo © Alain Hanel - Opéra de Monte-Carlo 2021

Salle Garnier

Thaïs Massenet

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