La Vie Parisienne - Toulouse - 1994 - Part 1 - Intro, Credits and Cancan

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres

A re-staging for France 3 of the wonderful over-the-top Geneva performance of  La Vie Parisienne. This one hails from Toulouse and dates from 1994.  It features the Orchestre National du Capitole du Toulouse and the Choeur et Ballet du Capitole.

This is part 1 - with the Introduction, Credits and a great cancan.

 https://youtu.be/nFTHwA99Odg 

This copy is several generations removed from the original, but the quality isn't too bad. 

There are some photos from yet another performance using this staging and costumes that can be seen at:

 https://clubccd.blogspot.com/2020/03/la-vie-parisienne-lopera-theatre-de.html

La Vie Parisienne - Toulouse - 1994 - Part 2 - Le Bresilien

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres

A re-staging for France 3 of the wonderful over-the-top Geneva performance of  La Vie Parisienne. This one hails from Toulouse and dates from 1994.  It features the Orchestre National du Capitole du Toulouse and the Choeur et Ballet du Capitole.


This is part 2 - the arrival of the Brazilian at the railroad station.  It gives the flavor of the original, but isn't quite as nice.

Brief topless nudity.

 https://youtu.be/3kw8Tn0Xe7M 

There are some photos from yet another performance using this staging and costumes that can be seen at:

 https://clubccd.blogspot.com/2020/03/la-vie-parisienne-lopera-theatre-de.html

La Vie Parisienne - Toulouse - 1994 - Part 3 - Finale

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres

A re-staging for France 3 of the wonderful over-the-top Geneva performance of  La Vie Parisienne. This one hails from Toulouse and dates from 1994.  It features the Orchestre National du Capitole du Toulouse and the Choeur et Ballet du Capitole.

This is part 3 - the finale and return of the cancan dancers.

https://youtu.be/Yxp8OnEBzyI 

There are some photos from yet another performance using this staging and costumes that can be seen at:

 https://clubccd.blogspot.com/2020/03/la-vie-parisienne-lopera-theatre-de.html

La Vie Parisienne - l'Opéra-Théâtre de Metz-Métropole

 

 

From a 2015 production of La Vie Parisienne by l'Opéra-Théâtre de Metz-Métropole.

The costumes are similar to the all-time great performance of the operetta in Geneva, many years ago now. (A low-res excerpt, minus the crucial railroad station scene, is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmD2GELg_V8)

Photos from Republicain Lorrain

https://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/moselle/2015/04/16/metz-offenbach-et-french-cancan-a-l-opera-theatre

 Photo credit: Gilles WIRTZ

The company's websites:

opera.metzmetropole.fr

 https://www.facebook.com/OperaTheatreMetzMetropole

La Vie Parisienne - Stara Zagora State Opera

The State Opera in a production of La Vie Parisienne  (Парижки живот)

Photos:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/StateOperaStaraZagora/photos/?tab=album&album_id=864572230344778

https://www.facebook.com/pg/StateOperaStaraZagora/photos/?tab=album&album_id=906273482841319

A video, with a brief cancan segment and intrusive titles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h81Hzu90qk

Troupe - La vie Parisienne "Jacques Offenbach"

The cancan is interspersed throughout, with a flurry toward the end.  The performance is not identified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guh56vDPSf8

Annie Cordy - La Vie Parisienne

A nice bloomered version of the cancan from La Vie Parisienne featuring Belgian/French star Annie Cordy.  This replaces an earlier posting from which the video has disappeared.

The video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hu771nfzSQ

Her bio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Cordy

De Jacques Offenbach - Vie Parisienne théâtre de Pau novembre 2003.

A different performance of La Vie Parisienne.  It will be hard for anyone to ever top the Geneva version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BdFiqKMcDQ
(cancan at 54:11)

La Vie Parisienne

Highlights from a television production of La Vie Parisienne, probably French.  The video is a little fuzzy, but very nice nonetheless.  The troupe is not named.

From:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKuvc4y9oKg

La Vie Parisienne - Marseille

Opera Marseille does La Vie Parisienne

Video at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4VQK_I3uQ

Opera Marseille:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Opera-de-Marseille/525373950897592

http://opera.marseille.fr/

A teaser video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJjU80aBg3I&feature=youtu.be

La Vie Parisienne - Metz

There are several very nice photos of my favorite version of "La Vie Parisienne", as performed by l'Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole, that can be seen at the Le Républicain Lorrain site:

http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/moselle/2015/04/16/metz-offenbach-et-french-cancan-a-l-opera-theatre

A higher resolution version of each photo is available.

l'Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole:

http://opera.metzmetropole.fr/site/index.php

https://www.facebook.com/OperaTheatreMetzMetropole

https://fr-fr.facebook.com/BalletOperaMetz

Unfortunately, they have not posted many photos there.

La Vie Parisienne - 1985 - as Photographed by Daniel Cande

Additional photos from the Théâtre de Paris' 1985 production of La Vie Parisienne taken by Daniel Cande.  Cande seems to have photographed just about every theater, opera and ballet event in Paris during the 1980s. 

These are from a collection housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. 

The collections from which these came and the originals of these and other photos can be accessed at:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9002456p.r=%22la+vie+parisienne%22.langEN

Cande seems to have photographed just about every theater, opera and ballet event in Paris during the 1980s and early 1990s, amounting to around 2000 sets of photos at the BnF site.  The collection begins at:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWireIndex=index&q=daniel+cande&lang=EN&n=50&p=1&pageNumber=75

If you visit the sites use the Download/Print link above the image to get a full-sized version of the photo.

Bibliographical information:

Titre : [La vie parisienne : photographies / Daniel Cande]

Auteur : Cande, Daniel (1938-....). Photographe

Éditeur : Daniel Cande (Paris)

Date d'édition : 1985

Type : image fixe,photographie

Langue : Français

Format : 172 photogr. pos. : diapositive coul. ; 24x36 mm

Format : image/jpeg

Droits : domaine public

Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b9002456p

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (75)

Relation : La vie parisienne / mise en scène de Jean-Luc Boutté et Leonidas Strapatsakis. - Paris : Théâtre de Paris, 16-10-1985

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41279640g

These were accessed through a BnF search engine called Gallica:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/?lang=EN

The BnF site:

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html

La Vie Parisienne as Photographed by Daniel Cande

Daniel Cande photographed three versions of "La Vie Parisienne" over the years - in 1981, 1985 and 1990.  The photos are housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France collection.  The top four photos are from the 1990 production, and the bottom photo is from the 1985 production.  I have cropped them to emphasize the dancers.

The collections from which these came and the originals of these and other photos can be accessed at:

1981 - Théâtre du Châtelet

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90828909.r=%22la+vie+parisienne%22.langEN

1985 - Théâtre de Paris

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9002456p.r=%22la+vie+parisienne%22.langEN

1990 - Opéra comique

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9082091z.r=%22la+vie+parisienne%22.langEN

If you visit the sites use the Download/Print link above the image to get a full-sized version of the photo.

Bibliographical information:

1981 Production:

Titre : [La vie parisienne, musique de Jacques Offenbach. Paris. Théâtre du Châtelet. 1981 : photographies / Daniel Cande]

Auteur : Cande, Daniel (1938-....). Photographe

Éditeur : Daniel Cande (Paris)

Date d'édition : 1981

Type : image fixe,photographie

Langue : Français

Format : 206 photogr. pos. : diapositive coul. ; 24x36 mm

Format : image/jpeg

Droits : domaine public

Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b90828909

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (2101)

Relation : La vie parisienne / mise en scène de Yves Robert. - Paris : Théâtre du Châtelet, 04-11-1980

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42673539c

1985 Production:

Titre : [La vie parisienne : photographies / Daniel Cande]

Auteur : Cande, Daniel (1938-....). Photographe

Éditeur : Daniel Cande (Paris)

Date d'édition : 1985

Type : image fixe,photographie

Langue : Français

Format : 172 photogr. pos. : diapositive coul. ; 24x36 mm

Format : image/jpeg

Droits : domaine public

Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b9002456p

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (75)

Relation : La vie parisienne / mise en scène de Jean-Luc Boutté et Leonidas Strapatsakis. - Paris : Théâtre de Paris, 16-10-1985

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41279640g

1990 Production:

Titre : [La vie parisienne, musique de Jacques Offenbach : photographies / Daniel Cande]

Auteur : Cande, Daniel (1938-....). Photographe

Éditeur : Daniel Cande (Paris)

Date d'édition : 1990

Type : image fixe,photographie

Langue : Français

Format : 177 photogr. pos. : diapositive coul. ; 24x36 mm

Format : image/jpeg

Droits : domaine public

Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b9082091z

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (2007)

Relation : La vie parisienne / mise en scène de Olivier Benezech. - Paris : Opéra comique, 04-12-1990

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb426343575


These were accessed through a BnF search engine called Gallica:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/?lang=EN

The BnF site:

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html

Costume Design Drawings for La Vie Parisienne 1980

The top drawing could easily become one of my favorite drawings of the cancan.   These are costume drawings for a 1980 production of "La Vie Parisienne" staged by Théâtre du Châtelet.

They are from the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.  I am not sure of the artist's name, but it may be Valeri.   These are included in a collection of photos of the production taken by Daniel Cande.

The originals, together with a number of other photos of the same drawings with differing amounts of brightness and contrast, may be viewed at:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90828909/f145.planchecontact.r=

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90828909/f206.planchecontact.r=

If you visit the site use the Download/Print link above the image to get a full-sized version of the photo.

Bibliographical information:

http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42673539c
 
Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b90828909

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (2101)

Relation : La vie parisienne / mise en scène de Yves Robert. - Paris : Théâtre du Châtelet, 04-11-1980

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42673539c

These were accessed through a BnF search engine called Gallica:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/?lang=EN

The BnF site:

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html

Pariser Leben (La Vie Parisienne)

A striking image from the cover of a souvenir book about Oper Frankfurt's 1978 production of Pariser Leben (La Vie Parisienne)..

This is from the site of a German bookseller offering it for sale:

http://www.buchfreund.de/Pariser-Leben-Buffo-Oper-in-fuenf-Akten-von-Henri-Meilhac-Musik-von-Jacques-Offenbach-Frankfurter-Fassung-von-Jér-me-Savary-Deutsch-von-Frank-Wilms-Meilhac-Henri-und-Jacques-Offenbach,47112296-buch