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.
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Barbara Frittoli
Thais
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Athanael
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Otello
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Alessandro Liberatore
Nicias
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Maurizio Lo Piccolo
Palemon
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Giovanna d'Arco
Arlecchino by Ferruccio Busoni
Nadezhda Serdjuk
Albine
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The Love for Three Oranges - Aix-en-Provence
Eleonora Buratto
Crobyle
Also in
La bohème - Liceu
Mozart: Così fan tutte - Teatro alla Scala
Ketevan Kemoklidze
Myrtale
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I, Don Giovanni
Roméo et Juliette
Gianandrea Noseda
Conductor
Also in
Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
Verdi: Don Carlo - Royal Theater Turin
Tiziano Mancini Director · Jules Massenet Composer
First release January 1, 2008 · Produced in Italy
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Italy
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English
Release dates
Italy · January 1, 2008
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No release date listed for United States.
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