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DVD : La Vie parisienne [Region 2]In association with Amazon.comstarring: Hélène Delavault, Claire Wauthion, Isabelle Mazin, Jean-Yves Chatelais, Jean-Francois Sivadier directed by: Pierre Cavassilas ![: La Vie parisienne [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/310PcNTZ0pL._SL160_.jpg) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: DVD EAN: 4006680102740 Format: PAL Number Of Discs: 2 Region Code: 2 Theatrical Release Date: 1991 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Offenbach's melodious extravaganza is essentially a celebration of Paris as a tourist trap, a background for attempted seductions, and a fertile source of routine flim-flams. This 1991 Opera National de Lyon production, emanating from one of Paris's chief rivals among French cities, focuses gleefully on the sordid aspects of the City of Lights, but its strongest appeal is in the quality of the singing and dancing. The opening scene of La Vie Parisienne takes place in a railroad station around the year 1860; tourists are pouring in from all parts of the world, many in colorful foreign costumes, including a Swedish woman, the Baroness Gondremark, who is chosen as the target for a seduction attempt. An elaborate series of deceptions fills out the plot and--more important--supplies opportunities for a dazzling variety of clever song and dance numbers. --Joe McLellan Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A beautiful Operetta in a poorer production!As a musical piece, this French operetta is simply outstanding! It has a lot of spectacular arias and scenes that are worth listening to. However, this production from the Opera National De Lyon, does not do a good job of bringing the piece to life. One cannot do a great job of comparing this production to another mainly because there isn't another DVD of this operetta. However, it is evident that this production has some flaws: 1. The singers in this production are clearly Amateurs; ... Read More Rating:  - Amateur NightThere is some very sprightly music in this performance, where the singers occasionally allow a pleasant sound to emerge (but not enough to spoil us), interrupted by tediously directed scenes straining much too hard to be funny. The actors/singers awkwardly move chairs around a lot to remind us that this is not a concert performance. Disagreements among the singers and the conductor regarding tempi are presented to us with great force. The comedy presumably depends on a sophisticated ambiguity regarding ... Read More Rating:  - Wonderful and delightful musical entertainment.Fully agree with the previous reviewer. Myself being quite partial to Offenbach who singlehandedly created "operetta", a forerunner of Suppe and a whole generation of Austrian-German-Hungarian operetta composers, including Johann Strauss, Zeller, Millocker, Ziehrer, Lehar and Kalman, I'd like to emphasize certain very positive aspects of this production. This is primarily a student effort as most of the performers being in their twenties but formidably talented. There is a tremendous enthusiasm of ... Read More Rating:  - Flawed but still delightful"La vie parisienne," a paean to Second Empire Paris and its voluptuous delights, may be Offenbach's most tuneful score. The irresistible melodies and rhythms never stop-except, naturally, to allow for spoken dialogue (and if that bothers you you aren't cut out to be an operetta fan :o). The best-known tunes appear in the popular ballet, "Gaite parisienne," arranged by French conductor Manuel Rosenthal; and anyone who loves that piece will be captivated to hear and see the originals and their lyrics come ... Read More Rating: - Nothing to write home about....I owe 2 other Offenbach productions-"La Belle Helene" staged by the Zurich Opera and "Orphee aux Enfers" staged by Lyon National Opera(available in Zone 0 format from Amazon.co.uk)which are much better than this one. After viewing the hilarious Orphee aux Enfers I was rather disapointed by this comparetively boring production,and since the first and only viewing,it stays abandoned in a corner... With a title like "Vie Parisienne" you expect a "rich bubbling champagne" but what you get is a rather ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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