Segerstrom Center Presents LA Opera
in a Concert Version of Jules Massenet’s
Masterpiece Thaïs
Segerstrom Center for the Arts will present LA Opera Off Grand with a special concert performance of Jules Massenet’s lyric masterpieceThaïs on Tuesday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.
The opera tells the story of Thaïs, a courtesan in Alexandria, Egypt during the Byzantine period whom men find irresistible in the hedonistic way she celebrates life and its most sensual pleasures.
The monk Athanaël vows to save her soul, but loses his own when his unholy obsession for her overpowers him. The incomparable Georgian soprano Nino Machaidze will sing the title role alongside LA Opera General Director Plácido Domingo in the baritone role as her conflicted savior, Athanaël.
Patrick Fournillier will conduct the same cast as well as the LA Opera Orchestra and Chorus that will appear in the company’s fully-staged production from May 17 – June 7 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Thaïs will be performed in French with English supertitles.
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