Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Offenbach's La Belle Hélène

Offenbach's La Belle Hélène

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Offenbach's La Belle Hélène from the Opéra de Lausanne

Offenbach's La Belle Hélène, a brilliant French Second Empire parody set on the eve of the Trojan Wars. From the Opéra de Lausanne.

Opera matinee: Jacques Offenbach's La Belle Hélène.
Penny Gore introduces a Lausanne Opera performance of one of the most enduring operettas in the repertoire, Offenbach's brilliant parody of the story of Helen's elopement with Paris, which set off the Trojan War.
Offenbach's masterpiece from the French Second Empire is followed by Honegger's powerful Symphonie Liturgique, written in the aftermath of the Second World War. 

Offenbach: La Belle Hélène, opéra bouffe in three acts
Julien Dran, tenor, Pâris, son of King Priam of Troy	
Michel Fau, tenor buffo, Ménélas, King of Sparta	
Christophe Lacassagne, baritone, Agamemnon, King of Kings	
Jean-Claude Saragosse, baritone, Calchas, grand soothsayer to Jupiter	
Jean-Francis Monvoisin, tenor, Achille, King of Phtiotis	
Pier-Yves Têtu, tenor, Ajax I, King of Salamis	
Hoël Troadec, tenor, Ajax II, King of the Locrians	
Julie Robard-Gendre, soprano, Hélène (Helen of Troy), Queen of Sparta	
Paul Figuier, countertenor, Oreste, son of Agamemnon	
Marie Daher, soprano, Bacchis, Helen's maid	
Béatrice Nani, mezzo-soprano, Loena	
Laurène Paternò, soprano, Parthoenis	
Jean-Raphaël Lavandier, [spoken role], Philocome	
Richard Lahady, [spoken role], Euthyclès	
Lausanne Opera Chorus	
Lausanne Sinfonietta	
Pierre Dumoussaud, conductor	
		
Followed at approx. 4pm by more recent performances from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, this week's featured orchestra. 

Henri Tomasi: Trumpet Concerto
Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet 
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mario Venzago, conductor

Honegger: Symphony No. 3 (Liturgique)
Bach orch. Stokowski: Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott from Cantata no. 80 BWV.80
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra 
Mario Venzago, conductor

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