In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly provide a quick, laugh-filled intro to Jules Massenet’s Thaïs, a tale full of religious eroticism! Set in the 4 ...

Utah Opera pulls out all the stops for the final performance of the 2023-24 season with the epic tale of Massenet’s Thaïs. Guided by the masterful hand of Italian director Andrea Cigni, audiences are ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The last time we saw Thaïs in the UK it proved a bit of a shocker. Plucky little Grange Park staged Massenet’s ...

A monastic monk with a playboy past and a penchant for self-flagellation returns to the city of his profligate youth in order to redeem the most famous courtesan of the day (who also happens to be his ...

JULES MASSENET is emerging from reputation rehab yet again, about to make one of his periodic applications for re-evaluation in hopes of being taken seriously. No doubt the arrival of the Metropolitan ...

3 Review: BBC PROMS: PROM 68 – BRITTEN'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Royal Albert Hall "Thaïs isn't as well known as it should be, but it is an incredibly beautiful opera and a wonderful star vehicle ...

Massenet’s “Thaïs,” which reached Los Angeles Opera for the first time Saturday night, may be an antique French opera. But it’s an exotic, erotic antique concerning an alluring courtesan in decadent ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | 'Thaïs' By Anthony Tommasini An opera company does not decide to mount a production of Massenet’s “Thaïs” and then look for a soprano ...

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 ...

Thaïs, the sexiest woman in Alexandria during the Byzantine era, and Blanche DuBois, the steamy Southern belle slipping past her prime in Tennessee Williams’ “Streetcar Named Desire,” may seem women ...