Released:
2008-01-01

Overview:
There's an uncompromising clarity to Blu-ray audio and video that really does bring the splendour of grand opera right into the living room. So it's all the more frustrating to get a compromised production as the final product. Jules Massenet's 1894 tragedy about a sex goddess humbled by an insistent Cenobite monk isn't produced very often, because of a demanding lead role and some difficult staging issues. But the music is gorgeous from beginning to end. When you have a great diva at centre stage, the three acts go by in a flash.

Director:
Tiziano Mancini

Runtime:
2h 19min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  Barbara Frittoli
  as
  Thais
• 
  Lado Ataneli
  as
  Athanael
• 
  Alessandro Liberatore
  as
  Nicias
• 
  Maurizio Lo Piccolo
  as
  Palemon
• 
  Nadezhda Serdjuk
  as
  Albine