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The Méditation is an instrumental entr'acte performed between the scenes of Act II in the opera Thaïs; a wordless chorus joins in for the last reprise. In the first scene of Act II, Athanaël, a Cenobite monk, confronts Thaïs, a beautiful and hedonistic courtesan and devotée of Venus, and attempts to persuade her to leave her life of luxury and pleasure and find salvation through God.
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In the 1894 version the end of act 1, the supposed striptease of Thaïs (which caused a great scandal on the first night due to a mishap with Sibyl Sanderson's costume) is a long symphonic interlude "L'amours d'Aphrodite" that leads without a break into act 2 and the scene with the mirror aria "Dis-moi que je suis belle".
Händel – Sonata in E major Op.1 No.15, HWV 373 / Franck – Violin Sonata in A major / Brahms – Scherzo F.A.E. / Bloch – Nigun / Kreisler – Liebesleid, Syncopation, Schön Rosmarin / Massenet – Meditation de Thais / Paradis – Sicilienne / Narita – The Song of the Seashore / Paganini – Cantabile Op.17
Bomsori Kim (Korean: 김봄소리, born December 13, 1989) is a South Korean classical violinist. [4] [5] [6] She performs as a recitalist and as a soloist.As a violinist, Bomsori has won prizes at ten international violin competitions, including the Tchaikovsky, [7] Queen Elisabeth, [8] ARD, [9] Sibelius, [10] Montreal, [11] Sendai, [12] Wieniawski, [13] Joachim, [14] China (Qingdao), [15 ...
Wilstach's Thais is a play performed at the Criterion Theatre in London, March 14 through April, 1911 (31 performances). Written by the American Paul Wilstach (1870-1952), it starred Constance Collier (1878–1955) playing the title role and Tyrone Power, Sr. (1869–1931) as the hermit. Earlier the play had a trial run in Boston.
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Thaïs leading the destruction of the palace of Persepolis, as imagined in Thaïs by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse, 1890.. Thaïs (/ ˈ θ aɪ s /; Greek: Θαΐς; fl. 4th century BCE) was a Greek hetaira who accompanied Alexander the Great on his military campaigns.