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La Vie parisienne

La Vie parisienne

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 8, 2022

Runtime

2h 59m

Genres

Music

Original Title

La Vie parisienne

Production Companies

ARTE, ARTE Concert, ARTE

Director

Christian Lacroix

Description

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1866, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This work was Offenbach's first full-length piece to portray contemporary Parisian life, unlike his earlier period pieces and mythological subjects. It became one of Offenbach's most popular operettas.