La Belle Hélène

Director: Ross MacGibbon

Date of release: 01 Dec 2000

Description

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as always he seems to still retain the Offenbach magic. La Lott and Monsieur Beuron are a joy, but so is everyone else. The Patriotic Trio by the sea is both a hoot and wonderfully sung, the score seems truly complete yet never flags and the finale sequences for especially acts 1 & 2 are a joy of movement and sound fused as one glorious Offenbachian moment.

Extra

Runtime	153 minute
Producer	Théâtre Musical de Paris - Châtelet
Language	Français
Themes	opera live performance opera offenbach
Actors	Felicity Lott Yann Beuron Eric Huchet Alain Gabriel Michel Sénéchal Laurent Naouri Francois Le Roux Marie-Ange Todorovitch Laurent Alvaro Hjördis Thébault Stéphanie d'Oustrac Magali Léger José Canalès Marc Minkowski