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La Belle Hélène (2000) Théâtre du Châtelet. Offenbach / French
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Felicity LottHélène, reine de Sparte
Yann BeuronPâris, fils de Priam, roi de Troie
Michel SénéchalMénélas, roi de Sparte
Laurent NaouriAgamemnon, roi d'Argos
François Le RouxCalchas, grand augure de Jupiter
Marie-Ange TodorovitchOreste, fils d'Agamemnon
Hjördis ThébaultBacchis, suivante d'Hélène
Stéphanie d'OustracLéoena, courtisane
Magali LégerParthénis, courtisaneExplore the crew
- Director
- Laurent Pelly
- Writer
- Ludovic Halévy
- Original Music Composer
- Jacques Offenbach
- Director
- Ross MacGibbon
- Writer
- Henri Meilhac