Jacques Offenbach
La belle Helene
The Beautiful Helena - Critical New Edition
Jacques Offenbach
La belle Helene
The Beautiful Helena - Critical New Edition
- Instrumentation Voice and Orchestra
- Composer Jacques Offenbach
- Editor Karl-Heinz Müller
- Editor Robert Didion
- Lyricist Henri Meilhac Ludovic Halévy
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- Publisher Alkor-Edition
- Order no. AE511-90-DL
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La Belle Hélène is one of the best known of Offenbach's more than one hundred stage works "La Belle Hélène" is one of the best known of Offenbach's more than one hundred stage works and a key work for the operetta genre as a whole. "La Belle Hélène" was successfully premiered on December 17, 1864 at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. The success of the German premiere on March 17, 1865 at the Theater an der Wien provided the impetus for the development of the Viennese operetta. The fact that "La Belle Hélène" was the first operetta to have a diva at its center proved to be particularly successful. The new critical edition of "La Belle Hélène" by Robert Didion (†) is the first to subject the musical text to careful philological scrutiny. While all previous editions were based either on the French first edition published by Gérard (Heugel) shortly after the premiere in Paris in 1865 or on the German edition by Bote Bock published after the first performance in Vienna in 1865, the new edition is based on Offenbach's autograph score, which has been preserved almost in its entirety. Offenbach's concession to the Bouffes-Parisiens only permitted a greatly reduced orchestral apparatus, which almost forced him to halve the wind section. The new edition makes it possible for the first time to realize the orchestral writing as Offenbach composed it.
> Finale in three versions
> Original French text with sangable German translation
> With detailed introduction (French/English/German)
> Finale in three versions
> Original French text with sangable German translation
> With detailed introduction (French/English/German)