La Belle Hélène

La Belle Hélène

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 1, 2000

Runtime

2h 33m

Genres

Music

Original Title

La Belle Hélène

Production Companies

Théâtre Musical de Paris - Châtelet, Arthaus Musik

Director

Laurent Pelly

Description

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.