Offenbach: La Belle Helène

Jennifer Larmore (Hélène), Jun-Sang Han (Pâris), Peter Galliard (Ménélas), Viktor Rud (Agamemnon), Rebecca Jo Loeb (Oreste), Dovlet Nurgeldiyev (Achille), Sergiu Saplacan (Ajax premier), Benjamin Popson (Ajax deuxième), Christian Miedl (Calchas), Anat Edri (Bacchis), Renate Spingler (Léoena), Gabriele...

La belle Hélène takes a trip back to the 1960s. You can almost smell the patchouli oil and feel the crushed velvet…Jennifer Larmore is a handsome Hélène…her singing is careful and characterful…[Jun-Sang... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: 730908
Label: C Major

Offenbach: La Belle Helène

Hamburg Opera, 2014
Jennifer Larmore (Hélène), Jun-Sang Han (Pâris), Peter Galliard (Ménélas), Viktor Rud (Agamemnon), Rebecca Jo Loeb (Oreste), Dovlet Nurgeldiyev (Achille), Sergiu Saplacan (Ajax premier), Benjamin Popson (Ajax deuxième), Christian Miedl (Calchas), Anat Edri (Bacchis), Renate Spingler (Léoena), Gabriele Rossmanith (Parthoenis)
Hamburg Philharmonic
Gerrit Priessnitz

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Staged by Renaud Doucet

Jacques Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène has always been one of its composer’s most successful works. Its first performance in Paris was quickly followed by productions in Vienna, Berlin, London, Milan and New York. A satire of middle-class values, this opéra bouffe pillories narrow-mindedness in society. Adopting a pro-active stance, director Renaud Doucet and designer André Barbe treat the piece as a “great show” with numerous choreographic elements, relocating the action of Offenbach‘s classical spoof and setting it on a cruise ship in the 1960s, when Flower Power, love and drugs were all the rage. “La Belle Hélène is a firework display for ears and eyes” (Hamburger Morgenpost), “opulent and amusing” (Bild), and in the title role Jennifer Larmore convinces with her “fantastic vocal performance” (Das Opernglas).

SOUND FORMAT DVD: PCM Stereo, dts 5.1

PICTURE 16:9, HD

SUBTITLES: French (original language), English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese

BOOKLET: E, G, F

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 117 MINS

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Philharmoniker Hamburg, Gerrit Priessnitz

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December 2015

La belle Hélène takes a trip back to the 1960s. You can almost smell the patchouli oil and feel the crushed velvet…Jennifer Larmore is a handsome Hélène…her singing is careful and characterful…[Jun-Sang Han is] handsome to look at and funny too

November 2015

In a dazzling array of costumes, flaunting an impressive decolletage, Jennifer Larmore submits joyfully to her transition from frustrated wife to seduced and abducted lover, blaming it all on Fate. She sings and acts with great vivacity without going over the top

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