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Article: Offenbach: Les Brigands.
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- September 1, 1996
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Les Brigands. Opera de Lyon. Claire Gibault, conductor; Louis Erlo and Alain Maratrat, directors. Valerie Chevalier (Fiorella), Colette Alliot-Lugaz (Fragoletto), Michel Trempont (Falsacappa), Riccardo Cassinelli (Pietro), Jean-Luc Maurette (Duke of Mantua), Georges Gautier (Baron Campo-Tasso), Jean-Luc Viala (Count Gloria-Cassis). Sung in French, with English subtitles. Home Vision BRI 080 (VHS; 1 videocassette; 122 minutes). ISBN 0-7800-1316-6.
Opera de Lyon's videos of La Vie Parisienne and Les Brigands restore the scenic and visual dimensions to works that have been staged primarily, if at all, in the listener's imagination. Most English-speakers know ...