La Belle Hélène
movie
View on VideBits →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 & crew
Alain Gabriel · Eric Huchet · Felicity Lott · François Le Roux · Hjördis Thébault · Laurent Alvaro · Laurent Naouri · Marie-Ange Todorovitch · Michel Sénéchal · Yann Beuron · Laurent Pelly · Ross MacGibbon · Henri Meilhac · Ludovic Halévy