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Offenbach - La Belle Helene / Minkowski, Lott, Beuron, Senechal, Naouri, Le Roux, Torodovitch, Chatelet Opera
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Features
• Classical
• Color
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 2000
DVD Release : 29 June, 2004 |
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Offenbach - La Belle Helene / Minkowski, Lott, Beuron, Senechal, Naouri, Le Roux, Torodovitch, Chatelet Opera Customer Reviews
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la Belle Helene
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Some reviewers are fixated on the fact that Dame Feliciy Lott is too old and not beautiful enough to be Helen. But how many Brunnhildes could mount a horse without breaking its back? She makes good choices about how to present the role. What got lost here is how well everyone else fits their part. Especially, Marie-Ange Torodovitch is magnificent as Orestes. If you are going to quibble about beauty, Yann Beuron isn't handsome enough to be Paris, but he does a remarkably good job of being the sort of confident young punk that Paris should be, and his voice is great for his part. Michel Senechal is perfect for Menelaus as depicted here. Francois le Roux (Calchas) and Laurent Naouri (Agamemnon) are also good.
The staging is good, and the various time-warps involved fit with Offenbach's original time changes.
Bottom line: I thought this was a total blast--I've watched it many times, and would reccommend it to anyone who likes this kind of thing. It's a really funny and amusing operetta, well worth watching.
I did not have any problems with disc quality, which has apparantly been erratic. |
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