Belle Lurette

Comic Opera by Jacques Offenbach Live, fully staged, in a new English version. NSO Chorus, St Paul’s Sinfonia, c. Toby Purser, d. David Foster Cast includes Rhiannon Llewellyn, Paul Featherstone, Joseph Doody, Kristin Finnigan, Charles Johnston.

NSO presents another neglected French gem, not performed in UK for 140 years. Amazingly, Offenbach wrote it at the same time as he was writing The Tales of Hoffmann, as he was dying. The orchestration was completed by Delibes and it had its first performance a month after he died. “The music is magnificent. In every way - a musical testament and a musical marvel” (Operetta Research Centre) “I have rarely spent three such happy hours in an opera house” Opera Now -(NSO’s Princess of Trébizonde 2021)