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Anne Sofie Von Otter gives a dazzling vocal display in this concert from the Thtre du Chtelet in Paris. Lyrically superb, she is wickedly sly, deliciously naughty and delightfully playful as she literally dons the hats of some of the feisty females who inhabit Offenbachs best-loved operettas. She is joined by singers Magali Lger, Stphanie dOustrac, Gilles Ragon, Laurent Naouri, Jean-Christophe Henry, Franck Versini and Christophe Grapperon who also assume Offenbach characters with uninhibited relish. Includes passages from La Grande-Duchesse de Grolstein, Madame lArchiduc, La Belle Hlne, Barbe-Bleue, Lischen et Fritzchen, La Vie Parisienne, La Fille du tambour-major and La Prichole, as well as the famous Barcarolle from the opera Les Contes dHoffmann. To round off an exhilarating evening, the orchestra, soloists and chorus join in a boisterous rendition of Offenbachs most famous creation, the cancan. Marc Minkowski conducts Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble.