"La Vie Parisienne" d'Offenbach Carried in Triumph at the Théâtre Du Châtelet
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The much awaited opera-bouffe version Valérie Lesort, carried by an exceptional distribution with Christian Hecq, Benjamin Lavernhe and Marie Oppert, has found its audience. Euphorising.
The troupe of the Comédie-Française starts at the Théâtre du Châtelet à corps lost in the whirlwind of the opera-bouffe d'Offenbach. The staging of Valérie Lesort searches the animality of characters trained in a race for pleasure, joyful as well as disillusioned. Until 11 July.
Unprecedented collaboration between the Châtelet theatre and the troupe of the Comédie Française, the masterpiece of Offenbach pushed to its paroxysm by Valérie Lesort is not to be missed. With an absolutely awesome Benjamin Lavernhe.
Photo Thomas Amouroux With the troupe of the Comédie-Française, Valérie Lesort reinvents the opera vigil of Offenbach as a grotesque and horrific bass-court bestiary. In 1886, Jacques Offenbach and his loyal librettists Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy had conceived their work as the great mirror of a euphoric and disloyal society. To return to work today is to seek to resurrect his enthralling joy, for freed from all interesting carcans, but al…
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