When Jacques Offenbach began writing The Tales of Hoffmann, in 1877, he hoped the opera would boost his reputation to a whole new level. It did exactly that — but unfortunately, the composer never ...

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An der Berliner Staatsoper inszeniert Lydia Steier „Les Contes d‘Hoffmann“ und lässt die Offenbach-Oper hochtourig ins Leere laufen. Pene Pati überzeugt als Titelheld nicht ganz. Ein Transvestit ...

Opera in Williamsburg presents: The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach, with English subtitles. Opera in Williamsburg presents: The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach. A beautiful fantasy of the ...

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There has always been a whiff of tragedy around Offenbach’s final work, Les contes d’Hoffmann. After decades of producing epoch-skewering operettas, Offenbach famously hoped this four-act opera would ...

Bregenzs Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before The New York Times praised the thoughtfulness and creativity of Stefan Herheims new production devised by the director as a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Tales of Hoffmann” stands out as one of the most unusual and intriguing works in all of opera. For his final masterpiece, which remained unfinished at ...

The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the ...