March 27, 1868
Musical.
FRENCH THEATRE.
“La Belle Hélène,” by OFFENBACH, was produced here last evening. We need hardly add that the house was filled with a fashionable and appreciative audience. Mr. BATEMAN’S bold and hazardous experiment has proved successful, and after “La Grande Duchesse” he is certain of a hearing for any work that he may choose to select from the extensive and almost unexplored reportoire of OFFENBACH. “La Belle Hélène” is an earlier work than “La Grande Duchesse.” It was (...)
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
La Belle Hélène
April 3, 1868
Musical.
FRENCH THEATRE.
“La Belle Hélène” enters on its second week tonight, and of course with undiminished signs of success. The critics have expressed their opinions of the work, and with agreeable impartiality have praised it to the skies or condemned it to the bottomless pit. In a moral point of view there can be no doubt that Helen was an improper person, and although over a hundred years old at the time when her story is taken up in this piece, was still distractingly pretty, (...)
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
La Belle Hélène