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Opera Thais in Beijing

Date: Feb 2-6 - 7 pm

Venue: NCPA

Price: 180-1,680 yuan

Following Carmen (Bizet), Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) and Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saens), Thais will be presented at the NCPA (National Centre for the Performing Arts) in early 2018. As another masterpiece created by composer Jules Massenet during the Romantic Period of France in the 19th century, Thais will be included into NCPA's repertoire, which will prelude 2018 NCPA performances for Chinese audiences. The opera Thais was adapted by dramatist Louis Calais according to the novel of the same name authored by French writer Anatole France. The novel won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1921. Composed by French composer Jules Massenet, the opera Thais was premiered at Palais Garnier on Feb 16, 1894. By telling a story of a young ascetic monk Athanael saving a famous courtesan Thais and then becomes degenerate, the opera reveals inextricable mental and entangled disputes.

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