Two hours of champagne-fueled chaos in petticoats? Sign me up.
Direction
Pelly's staging drags Offenbach into a gleefully anachronistic present.
Costume
Modern couture meets 19th-century excess—visual champagne.
Practical Effects
Live orchestra energy you simply cannot replicate at home.
Director
François Roussillon
Jean-Sébastien Bou
Raoul de Gardefeu
Marc Callahan
Bobinet
Maria Riccarda Wesseling
Métella
Laurent Naouri
Le Baron de Gondremark
Michelle Canniccioni
La Baronne
Marie Devellereau
Gabrielle
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
Frick
Christophe Mortagne
Prosper
Brigitte Hool
Pauline
Claire Delgado-Boge
Léonie / La voix de la gare
Sharona Applebaum
Albertine
Marie Cognard
Augustine
Marie-Eve Gouin
Clara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laurent Pelly is obsessed with Offenbach—this is one of three major productions he staged in the 2000s, each more visually anarchic than the last.
Offenbach invented the operetta as middle-class rebellion against grand opera's solemnity; Pelly's staging restores that subversive, almost punk energy.
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