Thais

If you haven't heard Thais, check out this piece played by Perlman. It's a fascinating love piece. My next baby will be Thais- no doubt ;)
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Thais&FORM=VIRE5#view=detail&mid=6C0AF141D5B3B6CA720F6C0AF141D5B3B6CA720F

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Taís Araújo (born on November 25, 1978 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress. Taís Araújo was the first black Brazilian actress to be a protagonist of a Brazilian telenovela, Xica da Silva (1996), in Rede Manchete. She was also a protagonist on another telenovela, Da Cor do Pecado (2004) in Rede Globo channel.
Telenovela=Soap Opera.

Thaisa is actually the name, very similar of course to Thais, given to the wife of Pericles in Shakespeare's great (but largely forgotten) early tragedy of "Pericles, Prince of Tyre".

Also the title character of an opera by the (now obscure) French composer Jules Massenet.

Jules Massenet the composer of 'Thais' is certainly not an obscure composer, his works are still performed in all the opera houses of the world. There is a memorial to him in front of the opera house/casino at Monte Carlo.

There is also a saint named Thaïs, who was a courtesan that converted to Christianity. It is about this Thais that Massenet's opera is written.