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Jules Massenet Thais (Sills, Milnes, Gedda, Maazel) 2CD FLAC

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Jules Massenet - Thais

Release Date: 09/26/1995
Label: Emi Classics
Catalog #: 65479
Spars Code: ADD
Composer: Jules Massenet
Performer: Sherrill Milnes, Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, etc.
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
Orchestra/Ensemble: John Alldis Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra

Number of Discs: 2
Recorded in: Stereo
Format: FLAC

"One of Massenet’s finest operas, a work which should be much more widely performed than it is, Thaïs is based on a novel by Anatole France. Athanaël, a monk in fourth-century Alexandria, converts a courtesan, Thaïs, who then becomes a nun. Unfortunately, he is enamoured of her and attempts to address her passionately as she lies dying. Strong, if odd, stuff, and Massenet clothes it in one of his most erotically appealing scores. Thaïs is convincingly characterised by Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes brings his magnificent voice to the role of the amorous monk Athanaël, and Nicolai Gedda is a model of French style as Nicias, the philosopher-friend of Athanaël. The smaller roles are entrusted for the most part to excellent English singers such as Ann Murray, Norma Burrowes and Richard Van Allan... The 1976 recording is vivid, somewhat favoring the voices but not too obtrusively."

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