La belle Vivette / Michael Frayn.

Author/creator Frayn, Michael author.
Other author Frayn, Michael
Format Electronic
PublicationLondon : Bloomsbury, [2014]
Copyright Date©2014
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentDrama online

Summary First performed by ENO in 1995, 'La Belle Vivette' is Frayn's reworking of Offenbach's 'La Belle Hélène, with a metatheatrical twist, creating an opera about the creation of an opera in Second Empire Paris in the 1860s. A parody of the Helen-Paris love story, Frayn's operetta has Vivette as the face that launched a thousand ships. Kept under tight control by her protector Monsieur Ploc, she nevertheless falls in love with the smitten new composer, Monsieur Berger.
General notePreviously issued in print: in Plays three. London: Methuen, 2000.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 4, 2014).
Genre/formDrama.
Standard identifier# 10.5040/9781472595836.40000024

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