"The original and impressive artist THAIS GALITZKY" "Equestrian and accomplished dancer." "The beautiful and seductive BIANCA BELINCIONI STAGNO" "Of Slavic origin, the Countess Véra Préobanjenska have nicknamed her "Nitchevo"" "Know for her eccentricities, she has a literary reputation under the pseudonym Thaïs." "The famous courtesan likes to indulge in crazy games:" "and yet, very sincerely, does not love any one" "Short and sweet!" "..." "This is the only requirement Thaïs imposes on her many admirers, with which she has fun, as if they were a collection of puppets." "She dances, and plays thousands and thousands of games, laughs out loud, and sings to her own voice!" "..." "But suddenly her song becomes sad: and as soon as she is alone, Thaïs cries." "Oscar is her cousin, inseparable." "He is her favorite puppet." "The Count San Remo, cold and irritating." "Thaïs firts with him for fun, like all the others." "As a sign of being her favorite, Thaïs invites those to visit her studio, which is decorated according to the most decadent art principles." " Do not touch, my friend, for this is the secret gate to the "Mysterious Beyond" ..." "Where I go to escape the days when, misunderstood, I have lived enough!" "..." ""O Virgin!" ", Oh Hell!" "Oh Monsters!" "Oh!" "Martyrs..."" ""Great spirits, observers of reality, ... "" ""Seekers of the infinite, Satyrs and blessed ... "" ""In the afternoon, filled with screams, in the evening, filled with tears." Charles Baudelaire" "Today two friends." "Tomorrow, two rivals." "A swinging party .. for five." "As usual, Oscar goes it alone." "That night, a drunkenness provoking smiles and livening up crazy promises" "Third Act" "A serious party." "After the games of chance, the ones of love!" "An arranged meeting" "With eyes only for Thaïs, the Count does not see Bianca's love for him." "Wearing an exotice and symbolic dress, Thaïs visits   the Count." "She plans to drive him completely crazy." "Even with flowers, Oscar arrives with the wrong intentions." "Thaïs know this and understands him." "The Count is left to bear her perfidious flirtations." "Resigned as always, Oscar knows to console himself with small things." "Kiss offered!" "Kiss refused!" " Be a ease!" "I won't withhold anything from you, my dear,   and ..." "See you soon!" " My dear Bianca, the Count seems to be intelligent, but he is just as fatuous, as ridiculous   as all the others." "I have only poor Oscar, who has a good spirit and doesn't make demands all the time." "Here, I will give him to you." "Mocked, misunderstood, hopeless love!" "..." "What a life!" "..." " I am here to visit you." " And I, the cruel beloved, return it to you   the beloved you tried to take from me." " How ironic!" ".." " It's fate!" "... everywhere I find Thaïs in my path." ""Death is that we take, Alas!" "and taking it, live;"" ""Is this the end of life, and is this the only hope"" ""Which, as an elixir, lifts us and makes us drunk,"" ""And we give our heart to go in the night." Charles Baudelaire" "Fourth Act" " The Possessed." " I is still me." " What a reproach!" " I come to say goodbye." " Love!" "..." "You return faster than you left." " Take me to the "Mad Devil"" " I must warn the missus   that he is always very touchy." " Well, hurry up." "The race to the abyss." " What happened?" "Miss Bianca   just fall off her horse." "We found her dead." " What a wretch I've been!" "Only I am responsible. ..." " And as the Count whom she loved is far away, I will mourn for her." "Let her death rest on my head." "Voluntary expiation" "Thaïs suffocates, delirious, in the disturbing fumes of fatal perfumes!" "..." "Obeying her instinct for self-preservation, Thaïs ... wants to escape from the death that she prepared for herself, ..." "A cruel refinement of a crazy, almost story-book life." "With dread minutes that seem like centuries Thaïs is slowly dying ..." "Thaïs is dying!"