Intriguing parallels between L.A. Opera's Thais and Blanche DuBois
Thaïs, the sexiest woman in Alexandria during the Byzantine era, and Blanche DuBois, the steamy Southern belle slipping past her prime in Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," may seem women world's apart. But both depend, in one desperate way or another, on the kindness of strangers....