I just saw a fantastic DVD I bought of Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne.
This production was put on by the Opera National de Lyon; it has English
subtitles. The costumes are around 1876, more or less--they're stage
costumes.
But who cares about the costumes? The opera is a vivid, simultaneously
In a message dated 2/11/2006 1:14:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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I just saw a fantastic DVD I bought of Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne.
I love Offenbach! Les Contes d'Hoffmann is one of my fave operas [Right
after Monteverdi's Orfeo and Mozart's Le Nozzi]. Now
Do you know a really good DVD of Les Contes d'Hoffmann, musically, and
in terms of the technical quality of transferring the music, and where
they didn't go and use modern clothes for costumes or something?
The San Francisco Opera DVD of Die Fledermaus is absolutely wonderful BTW.
Fran
