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Composer:
Jacques Offenbach

Artist(s):
Felicity Lott
Yann Beuron

Conductor:
Marc Minkowski

Background: Staged and costumed by Laurent Pelly, with sets by Chantal Thomas and choreography by Laura Scozzi, this production of La Belle Hélène never forgets for one moment that Offenbach’s parody of the origins of the Trojan war - clearly recognisable in his day as a satire on the moral laxity of Second Empire high society - is, above all, a supreme manifestion of his comic genius. From start to finish it combines a musically superb performance with a stream of visual humour that flows from Pelly’s core idea that the action all takes place in the imagination of a sleeping, sex-starved, suburban housewife.

Dame Felicity Lott is magnificent as the woman who gets into bed beside her somnolent old husband and dreams of being the most beautiful woman in the world, entangled in amorous adventures with the virile young Paris, tastily portrayed by Yann Beuron. And just as dreams do not respect the normal limitations of logic, time and place, so her nighttime fantasies combine the everyday with the mythical, and muddle up Greece, ancient and modern.

CATALOGUE NR: 107000
RECORD LABEL: Arthaus Musik
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 23.50
RELEASE DATE: 27-Oct-2008

COMPOSER: Jacques Offenbach
TITLE: La Belle Helene - complete
CONDUCTOR: Marc Minkowski
ARTISTS: Felicity Lott   Yann Beuron   Laurent Naouri   Les Musiciens du Louvre

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 DVD9 / Sound Format: PCM Stereo DTS 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1 / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 127 minutes + 26 minutes documentary / Recorded: live from the Theatre Musical De Paris Chatelet 2000 / Subtitles: English French Spanish German Italian - Mar-2009 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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