L'odyssée Offenbach

This performance of the ballet-opera written by Jean-Philippe Rameau is a magnificent blend of barok music and krump dance by choreographer Bintou Dembele. The choice for this beautiful powerful dance wirh african roots further enriches the theme of the opera about far away cultures.

Les Indes galantes

This Blu-ray is a splendid record of a creative production with terrific voices and direction, as good as the Met's videos any day. It also tends to be creepy and atmospheric, with music as good as anything Gounod wrote for his FAUST. Recommended to lovers of horror and opera!

The Bleeding Nun

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1866, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This work was Offenbach's first full-length piece to portray contemporary Parisian life, unlike his earlier period pieces and mythological subjects. It became one of Offenbach's most popular operettas.