Saturday’s Opera presentation at Kendal in the Gathering Room will be Jules Massenet’s Thaïs. It will take place on August 14, at 1:00 pm.
The principal singers are Renee Fleming and Thomas Hampson in a December 2008 performance at the Metropolitan Opera.
Jésus Lopez-Cobos conducts.
What’s it all about? Well, the monk Athanaël tries to convert the courtesan and dancer Thaïs to Christian life in the Egyptian desert outside Alexandria.
Does he succeed? You have to attend to find out and as a “added extra” you get some great music and singing.