LA BELLE HELENE

an opera bouffe by Jacques Offenbach

Director Slavcho Nikolov
Conductor Dimitar Kosev
Scenography and Costumes Ivan Tokadzhiev and Ana-Mariya Tokadzhieva
Plasticity Consultant Romina Slavova
Concertmaster Paulina Zaharieva
Choirmaster Mladen Stanev

Helene – Antoaneta Dobreva-Neti
Paris – Nikolay Motsov
Menelas  – Milko Mihaylov
Calchas – Hristo Sarafov
Agamemnon  – Ignat Zhelev
Oreste – Yana Hristova
Achille – Aleksandar Krunev
Ajax I  – Yancho Ivanov
Ajax II – Tsveti Penyashki
Philocome – Plamen Asenov
Parthenis – Prolet Pencheva
Leona – Lili Hodzheva
Bacchis – Tereza Brakalova
Hermes – Petar Yankulov
Athena – Kameliya Stoycheva
Hera – Emiliya Dzhurova
Aphrodite – Neli Necheva

The music in „La belle Helene” is melodic and graceful. The characters in the action take the boulevard French humor and the Parisian slang to the time of the Trojan War.  It combines the derision of the human and social manners of the end of 19^th century. Many of them are also topical today.

Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes with one interval
Performed in Bulgarian
Premiere on 26 October 2018