Offer,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... — More…
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Contents
Offenbach: La Belle Helène
- Dame Felicity Lott (narrator), Alain Gabriel (tenor), José Canalès (narrator), Alain Gabriel (narrator), Hjördis Thébault (narrator), Yann Beuron (tenor), Françoix Le Roux (narrator), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Magali Léger (soprano), Yann Beuron (narrator), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (narrator), Eric Huchet (tenor), Eric Huchet (narrator), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (mezzo-soprano), Hjördis Thébault (soprano), François Le Roux (baritone), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Laurent Alvaro (baritone), Laurent Naouri (baritone), Laurent Alvaro (narrator), Françoix Le Roux (baritone), Laurent Naouri (narrator), Michel Sénéchal (tenor), Michel Sénéchal (narrator)
- Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre, Les Musiciens du Louvre
- Marc Minkowski
- Recorded: 2000-10-31
- Recording Venue: October 2000 / Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
La Belle Hélène: Ouverture
Introduction: Vers tes autels, Jupin (Choeur du peuple)
Trop de fleurs (Calchas / Philocome)