Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann

2016 0.0 (0 votes) 2h 15m

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Drama Fantasy

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Opéra National de Paris

Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann)

Jacques Offenbach's opéra fantastique live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on November 15, 2016

Overview

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta. Robert Carsen’s spectacular production highlights the melancholy genius of a man marked by life, with a coherence and dramatic sense remarkable for a work that leaves numerous questions unanswered. Under the baton of Philippe Jordan, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Ermonela Jaho, Kate Aldrich, Yann Beuron and Ramón Vargas and Stefano Secco in the main role, interpret the legendary airs of this work whose brilliant mystery will continue to dazzle opera houses for countless years to come.