Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann with set designs by William Dudley Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
There was no lack of erotic or political scandal to liven up the creation of this work, guaranteeing it immediate and unfailing success. Get carried away by music that is always new and inventive, ...
“The Tales of Hoffmann,” Jacques Offenbach’s bounteously imaginative mingling of reality and fantasy, stands as one of the opera world’s most peculiar and wonderful masterpieces. The opera’s unwieldy ...
The neglect of Suppé this year is perhaps not that surprising (though he, not Johann Strauss II, started Viennese operetta), because interest in him has for decades been confined to his overtures. But ...
As the title character in Jacques Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” peers at a mechanical doll through special fantasy-granting glasses, the toy becomes far more than the sum of her mannequin parts ...
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The Greek National Opera partners with one of the most important and historic opera houses in Europe, the Opéra Comique in Paris, for an adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's Le Voyage dans la Lune, ...
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 ...
This gallery is from Opera on 3 Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. BBC Radio 3 Galleries Gounod's Faust from the ...
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