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Natalie Dessay - Greatest Moments on Stage
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Rameau - Platee / Agnew, Delunsch, Beuron, Naouri, Le Texier, Lamprecht, Minkowski, Paris Opera
:Description:This Paris Opera production of Rameau’s burlesque on the vicissitudes of love, is a 'pure joy from start to splashing finish' (Wall Street Journal Europe). 'Laurent Pelly’s staging of Platée is an exhilarating display of gags and West Side Story dance routines mixed in with satirical rap...Marc Minkowski conducting the excellent Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble was the instigator of a sparkling orchestral fête' (Opera Now). 'Véritable révélation musicale et dramaturgique, la production n’a rien perdu de son implacable cruauté, de son joyeux piquant ni de sa noirceur et de son ineffable pouvoir de nostalgie' ...
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Offenbach - La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein / Lott, Piau, Beuron, Le Roux, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski (Theatre du Chatelet)
:Description:Dame Felicity Lott stars in a rollicking performance of Offenbach's operetta 'La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein.' Features the same cast as the studio recording released on CD in October 2005. The stage production was filmed in December 2004 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. The result is a kaleidoscope of artistry and comedy that should not be missed! This production goes back to the original version which had been adjusted and censored after it's premiere at the Theatre des Varietes in 1867.
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Offenbach - La Belle Helene / Minkowski, Lott, Beuron, Senechal, Naouri, Le Roux, Torodovitch, Chatelet Opera
:Description:Staged and costumed by Laurent Pelly, this production Offenbach’s parody of the origins of the Trojan War is a supreme manifestation of his comic genius. It combines a musically superb performance with a stream of visual humour that flows from Pelly’s core idea that the action all takes place in the imagination of a sleeping, sex-starved, suburban housewife. Dame Felicity Lott is magnificent as the woman who dreams of being the most beautiful woman in the world. The production explodes with gaiety and invention throughout and 'is as innocently filthy as only the ...
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Mozart - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
:Description:Staged and costumed by Laurent Pelly, this production Offenbach’s parody of the origins of the Trojan War is a supreme manifestation of his comic genius. It combines a musically superb performance with a stream of visual humour that flows from Pelly’s core idea that the action all takes place in the imagination of a sleeping, sex-starved, suburban housewife. Dame Felicity Lott is magnificent as the woman who dreams of being the most beautiful woman in the world. The production explodes with gaiety and invention throughout and 'is as innocently filthy as only the ...
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La Belle Hélène [Region 2]
:Description:Staged and costumed by Laurent Pelly, this production Offenbach’s parody of the origins of the Trojan War is a supreme manifestation of his comic genius. It combines a musically superb performance with a stream of visual humour that flows from Pelly’s core idea that the action all takes place in the imagination of a sleeping, sex-starved, suburban housewife. Dame Felicity Lott is magnificent as the woman who dreams of being the most beautiful woman in the world. The production explodes with gaiety and invention throughout and 'is as innocently filthy as only the ...
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Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione di Poppea / Delunsch, von Otter, Brunet, Hellekant, Fouchécourt, Sedov, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski, Gruber (Aix-en-Provence Festival)
:Description:Staged and costumed by Laurent Pelly, this production Offenbach’s parody of the origins of the Trojan War is a supreme manifestation of his comic genius. It combines a musically superb performance with a stream of visual humour that flows from Pelly’s core idea that the action all takes place in the imagination of a sleeping, sex-starved, suburban housewife. Dame Felicity Lott is magnificent as the woman who dreams of being the most beautiful woman in the world. The production explodes with gaiety and invention throughout and 'is as innocently filthy as only the ...
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Messiah
:Description:Photographer-filmmaker William Klein takes on Handel’s Messiah and has created a gorgeous concert film that mixes the sacred with the profane. Performed in its entirety, the oratorio provides a narrative of Christ’s nativity, passion and resurrection juxtaposed against images of absurdities and abuses against the human species across the world. The film reveals a wide array of worshippers from the Bodybuilders of Christ to the Lavender Light Gay and Lesbian Interracial Choir to the Dallas police choir.
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Offenbach in Paris / von Otter, Les Musicians du Louvre, Minkowski [Theatre du Chatelet 2002]
:Description:Anne Sofie Von Otter gives a dazzling vocal display in this concert from the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Lyrically superb, she is wickedly sly, deliciously naughty and delightfully playful as she literally dons the hats of some of the feisty females who inhabit Offenbach’s best-loved operettas. She is joined by singers Magali Léger, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Gilles Ragon, Laurent Naouri, Jean-Christophe Henry, Franck Versini and Christophe Grapperon who also assume Offenbach characters with uninhibited relish. Includes passages from La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Madame l’Archiduc, La Belle Hélène, Barbe-Bleue, Lischen et Fritzchen, La Vie ...
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Mozart - Mitridate
:Description:Anne Sofie Von Otter gives a dazzling vocal display in this concert from the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Lyrically superb, she is wickedly sly, deliciously naughty and delightfully playful as she literally dons the hats of some of the feisty females who inhabit Offenbach’s best-loved operettas. She is joined by singers Magali Léger, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Gilles Ragon, Laurent Naouri, Jean-Christophe Henry, Franck Versini and Christophe Grapperon who also assume Offenbach characters with uninhibited relish. Includes passages from La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Madame l’Archiduc, La Belle Hélène, Barbe-Bleue, Lischen et Fritzchen, La Vie ...
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