{"product_id":"0032031005792","title":"La Vie Parisienne","description":"\"The German-born classical composer Jacques Offenbach pioneered the form of the opera bouffe, a forerunner of contemporary operetta with satirical overtones. That form is exemplified by +La Vie Parisienne, a gay on-stage celebration of life in 1860s Paris that explores various forms of deception and ruse, from servants impersonating their hires to trollops pretending to be bourgeois matrons. Offenbach builds a freewheeling, carnivalesque recreation of Paris by day, before descending into the sadness that lingers when the celebration dies. Alain Franco's wickedly inventive and colorful 1991 production of this work -- which features a locomotive charging onto the stage -- comes to home video in the release La Vie Parisienne. Directed by Jean-Pierre Brossmann, the cast includes Helene Delavault, Claire Wauthion, Isabelle Mazin, Jean-Yves Chatelais, Jean-Fran?ois Sivadier, and Jacques Verzier, backed by The Chorus and Orchestra of the Lyon National Opera.\"","brand":"BAYVIEW ENTERTAINMENT LLC***","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084933218544,"sku":"0032031005792","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0032031005792_p0.jpg?v=1763797638","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0032031005792","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}