Sébastien Rouland
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Virgin Classics
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Reviews
“It is good to see [Pelly] back [in France] and on such sparkling form. Aided and abetted by his usual high-octane team, Agathe Mélinand for the adapted dialogue and Chantal Thomas for the wonderful sets, Pelly convincingly updates this satire on hedonistic Second Empire morals to the present day.”
Financial Times
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Recording live at the Opera National de Lyon just about a year ago, this is a delightful modern updating of Offenbach’s mid-19th-century opera-bouffe in four acts. I don’t know how much was changed in the lyrics, if any, but everything seems to fit the modern dress and mores setting.
[...] The singing is superb from everyone and the clever choreography keeps one’s interest thruout. The costumes are appropriate, with some quite sexy ones on the women. During the instrumental entr'actes a clever bit involving processions on a moving walkway at Orleans airport in Paris provides plenty of laughs will offering something fun to watch during the non-singing portions. The subtitles are also very well translated and most readable.
[...] The DTS sound is excellent and the transfer very hi-res, almost as good as Blu-ray. A fine production, obviously staged for TV but benefitting handsomely as a result, compared to some more staid videos of stage presentations.
John Sunier , Audiophile Audition
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“Un spectacle mis en scène par Laurent Pelly, un habitué du compositeur français. …. Entre lui et Offenbach, l'histoire d'amour est apparemment inusable. C'est sa neuvième production du compositeur. En 1997, Orphée aux enfers révéla le metteur en scène français à l'opéra.’’
(“A show directed by Laurent Pelly. well acquainted with Offenbach ... with whom he seems to have an evergreen love affair. It’s his ninth production of a work by the composer – in 1997, it was Orphée aux enfers that gave this French director his operatic breakthrough“)
Le Monde
