La Belle Hélène
Ross MacGibbon2000-12-01
La Belle Hélène (2000) Théâtre du Châtelet. Offenbach / French
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153 min
This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as always he seems to still retain the Offenbach magic. La Lott and Monsieur Beuron are a joy, but so is everyone else. The Patriotic Trio by the sea is both a hoot and wonderfully sung, the score seems truly complete yet never flags and the finale sequences for especially acts 1 & 2 are a joy of movement and sound fused as one glorious Offenbachian moment.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Felicity Lott | Hélène, reine de Sparte | Unowned |
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Yann Beuron | Pâris, fils de Priam, roi de Troie | Unowned |
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Michel Sénéchal | Ménélas, roi de Sparte | Unowned |
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Laurent Naouri | Agamemnon, roi d'Argos | Unowned |
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François Le Roux | Calchas, grand augure de Jupiter | Unowned |
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Marie-Ange Todorovitch | Oreste, fils d'Agamemnon | Unowned |
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Eric Huchet | Achille, roi de Phthiotis | Unowned |
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Alain Gabriel | Ajax premier, roi de Salamine | Unowned |
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Laurent Alvaro | Ajax deuxième, roi des Locriens | Unowned |
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Hjördis Thébault | Bacchis, suivante d'Hélène | Unowned |
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Stéphanie d'Oustrac | Léoena, courtisane | Unowned |
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Magali Léger | Parthénis, courtisane | Unowned |
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José Canalès | Philocome | Unowned |