(Leader, A. Rossi )
Under the direction of Emilio Colombo
Relayed from
The Hotel Metropole, London
Massenet's Thais is based upon Anatole France 's well-known story of early Christian times in Egypt. The ' Meditation ' occurs in the opera between the evening of the visit of the Monk Athanacl to the luxurious home of Thais, and the morning of her conversion and repentance.