“La Vie parisienne” the flagship work of Jacques Offenbach is staged in his finest formal costume by Christian Lacroix at the Champs Elysées theater. An opera-bouffe presented in its entirety and in an uncensored version.
The year begins with a champagne show. A sparkling, total show that combines lyric and dance, boulevard theater and cabaret, and even a little circus: “La Vie Parisienne”, opera-bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, the first staging by the famous couturier Christian Lacroix.
A work created in 1866, which celebrates a certain French art of living, and which tells with derision and insolence a world of masks, lies and pretenses, that of the good Parisian society of those years, between aristos corrupt, tourists thirsty for sex and pleasures, rebellious and clever demi-mondaines and servants.
With the baguette, Romain Dumas. Among the soloists, the mezzo soprano Eleanor Pancrazi who lends his voice to Métella, a demigodaine. “La Vie Parisienne” by Offenbach is to be applauded until January 9 in Paris, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
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