Desc: La vie parisienne: Directed by François Roussillon. With Rodolphe Briand, Jodie Devos, Marc Mauillon. The French fashion designer Christian Lacroix is responsible for direction, costume and scenography in this sparkling performance from the Theatre des Champs-Elyses in Paris. Offenbach's 1866 operetta became one of his greatest successes and is the first to be set in contemporary Paris, not in mythological antiquity. With a plot full of love entanglements, identity confusion and role-play and with a perfect cast of characters, it is a hymn to party and glam. Because - "such is Parisian life, noble pleasures and pleasures.