Written for Living Poetry. Bart asks
us to write a based on Jules Massenet’s
“Méditation” from the opera “Thaïs”
Violin trembles ….
mirror set down, gold unclasped,
dawn finds a new soul.
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Nancy’s Notes: In the opera, this five-minute instrumental intermezzo plays between scenes in Act II. It represents the exact moment the title character …. Thaïs, an Egyptian courtesan devoted to a life of hedonism and vanity …. contemplates her mortality and decides to renounce her sins to follow a path of faith
This is “Meditation”, from “Thais” by Jules Massenet
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