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Offenbach: Orpheus In The Underworld / La Vie Parisienne / La Belle Helene [Highlights in English]

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Creators: Derek Hammond-Stroud, Eric Shilling, John Heddle Nash, Peter Tracey, Eric Stannard, Lawrence Folley, Jacques Offenbach, Alexander Faris, John Matheson, Anna Pollak, Joyce Blackham, Patricia Kern, Suzanne Steele, Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra, Cynthia Morey, Deidree Thurlow, Irene Carpenter, June Bronhill, Margeret Nisbett, Rachel Conway
Label: Classics for Pleasur
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

2 reviews
Sales Rank: 14618

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Running Time: 151 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 724357599924
EAN: 0724357599924
ASIN: B00009KHY3

Release Date: June 2, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Tracks:

Disc 1

•	Overture
•	The Happy Bride Never Stumbles
•	You've Gone Too Far!
•	May I Make Myself Known?
•	My Death Appears Divinely Smiling
•	When Diana Leaves The Mountains
•	To Arms!
•	When Jupy Feels The Inclination
•	Here Comes Orpheus
•	When I Was King Of The Boeotians
•	I Thought That I Felt On My Shoulder
•	What Heavenly Joy Is Mine
•	Minuet And Galop
•	Overture
•	How Sad We've Made The Marchioness
•	Well Isn't That Just Life All Over?
•	I'm The Guide For Every Tourist
•	I Am A Native Of Brazil
•	In This Enchanting Queen Of Cities
•	I Am A Dab At Carving Pork
•	We Have Seen Sights Since Eleven... I'm A Colonel's Widow
•	Dinner Is Served

Disc 2

•	Oh, Little Cloud
•	When She Goes Out... Her Petticoats Go Frou, Frou, Frou
•	Does He Know He's Splitting Down The Back
•	Nobody Would Call Me A Rover
•	I'll Have So Much To Say
•	It's Most Important You Should Show
•	Here You See The Place
•	My Friends, I'm Most Delighted To See You
•	In Songs And Shouts... Paris Blooms Like A Flower
•	Introduction
•	To Bow To Jupiter We Gather At The Shrine
•	We've Had A Night Out
•	On Mount Ida Three Great Ladies (The Judgement Of Paris)
•	March And Entry Of The Kings
•	Entr'acte
•	We All Begin By Truly Trying
•	It Is Her That Has Sent This Sweet Love Dream
•	Come Here, You Kings Of Greece
•	When All Of Greece Has Been Ravaged
•	Do You See?

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Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars

A wonderful treat for any Offenbach fan June 3, 2003
P. Aplin (Cheltenham, UK)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

Sadlers Wells opera (now English National Opera) revived these operettas in the 1960's and they remained in the repertoire for years. I saw "Orpheus in the Underworld" and "La Belle Helene" as a teenager and the former many times after that. The listing is misleading because a third operetta "La Vie Parisienne" is also included. I fell in love with all these recordings in vinyl in my youth and to have them in one package on CD is a wonderful treat for any Offenbach fan. The fact that they are in English in no way detracts as the translations are witty and clever. They are beautifully sung especially by June Bronhill in Orpheus and La Vie. I have never heard the King of the Boeotians song better sung. All in all I cannot recommend this set highly enough.

4 out of 5 stars

Offenbach should be more popular July 12, 2003
gina grey (England)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful

Well, what a truly pleasant surprise this cd was!brThe catchiness of Offenbachs melodies -no, I am not referring only to the famous can-can melody which is the most popular reminder of Orpheus - but La Vie Parisienne and La Belle Helene are also full of humour and hummable themes. After all, it was the success of Offenbach which later bore fruit in England with Gilbert Sullivan composing operettas.brSadlers Wells have made a wonderful recording here with singing of the highest standard, and it is truly a delight to listen to this superb recording of operettas which perhaps should be more popular than they have been.

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