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Offenbach: La Belle Helène
Dame Felicity Lott (Hélène), Yann Beuron (Paris), Michel Sénéchal (Ménélas), Laurent Naouri (Agamemnon), François Le Roux (Calchas), Eric Huchet (Achille), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Oreste)
Les Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
The wit sparkles, the one-liners are beautifully timed and delivered, and there's none of the 'big opera star does laboured comic turn' heaviness you sometimes hear in this kind of production...Beuron... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2001, Editor's Choice
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Paris Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, Opéra Comique, René Leibowitz, Roger Désormière
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Offenbach: La Belle Helène
Janine Linda, Andre Dran, Roger Giraud & Jean Mollien
Paris Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Rene Leibowitz
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Offenbach: The Operas & Operettas Collection
Marcel Couraud, Michel Plasson, Willy Mattes, Félix Nuvolone, Jean-Pierre Marty, Pinchas Steinberg, John Eliot Gardiner, Manuel Rosenthal, Sylvain Cambreling, Heinz Wallberg, Carlo Maria Griguoli, François Le Roux
Almost without exception the performances collected here tread Offenbach’s primrose path with verve…Twenty-first-century operetta lovers will weep to see such luxury casting…The Belle Hélène... —
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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... —
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Offenbach: La Belle Helène
Jane Rhodes (Hélène), Bernard Plantey (Pâris), Jean Giraudeau (Ménélas), Jacques Doucet (Agamemnon), Bernard Demigny (Calchas), Michel Hamel (Achille), Andrine Forli (Oreste), Robert Andreozzi (Ajax I), Jean-Paul Vauquelin (Ajax II)
Orchestra of L'Opera-Comique Paris, Chorus of L'Opera-Comique...
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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...
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... —
