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Musical Parisians
With Richard Baker.
3: Offenbach. A tale about two
Parisian beggars who pretend to be blind was the first of Offenbach's 90 or so operas to be a real success.
To follow were triumphs like Orpheus in the Underworld, La Belle Helene and La Vie Parisienne, which have all come to symbolise the Parisian good life in its heyday.
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 33 No 6 (4th mvt) The Lindsays
Offenbach Overture: Les Deux
Aveugles Philharmonia , conductor Neville Marriner
Wagner Tannhauser (excerpt)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Offenbach Intermezzo (The Tales of Hoffmann) Boston Promenade
Orchestra, conductor Arthur Fiedler

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker.
Unknown:
La Belle Helene
Conductor:
Aveugles Philharmonia
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Conductor:
Wagner Tannhauser
Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Conductor:
Arthur Fiedler
Source: Radio Times

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