La vie parisienne - Opera
Bobinet and Gardefeu, two Parisian dandys, play all sorts of tricks to win the favours of Métella, a demimondaine, while getting rid of her latest admirer, the Baron de Gondremarck, newly arrived to Paris with his wife. However, the shrewd Baroness and her friends delude and shamefully expose their play.
With its frivolous depiction of local nightlife, "La Vie parisienne" became immensely popular when premiered shortly before the 1867 Paris Exposition, whereas the libretto’s satirical comments on current military and political affairs were immediately censored. We present you La Vie parisienne in its uncensored version with a magnificent, idiomatic Francophone cast and in a splendidly colourful staging by Christian Lacroix, which ends, as Offenbach wished, in merriment, champagne and song.
Comic opera in five acts
Music by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Premiere: Paris, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 31 october 1866
The complete original edition of 1866
Co-production: Bru Zane France / Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège / Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen / Théâtre des Champs-Élysées / Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie / Opéra de Limoges / Opéra de Tours / Palazzetto Bru Zane
Executive production: Bru Zane France
Sets, costumes, props and wigs created by the workshops of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège
Music published by Palazzetto Bru Zane
Conductor | Gianluca Capuano
Director, sets and costumes | Christian Lacroix
Deputy directors | Romain Gilbert & Laurent Delvert
Lighting design | Bertrand Couderc
Choreography | Glyslein Lefever
Choirmaster | Stefano Visconti
Gabrielle | Alexandra Marcellier
Pauline | Gloria Tronel
Clara | Sheva Tehoval
La baronne de Gondremarck | Karina Gauvin
Métella | Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur
Bertha | Brenda Poupard
Mme de Folle-Verdure | Julie Pasturaud
Mme de Quimper-Karadec | Maryse Castets
Le Brésilien/ Frick/ Gontran | Kévin Amiel
Prosper/ Joseph/ Alphonse | Thomas Morris
Raoul de Gardefeu | Eric Huchet
Bobinet | Marc Mauillon
Le baron de Gondremack | Jean-François Lapointe
Urbain/ Alfred/ Employé de gare | Philippe Estèphe
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