Premiering in Paris at the Opéra-Comique in 1881, Les contes d'Hoffmann was Offenbach's final work; he died four months before the premiere. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on ...

The poet E.T.A. Hoffmann is in love with Stella, a renowned opera singer: Lindorf, a rich counsellor, also loves her and has intercepted a note she has written to Hoffmann. Lindorf is confident he ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A new production of the Tales of Hoffmann at Geneva's Grand Theater creates a mix of art, sex and death in an unusually nightmarish and nihilistic reading of Jacques Offenbach's ...

Never mind: this is where we are, so how well are the tales of the poet’s three loves and the frame in which a fourth battles it out with a demon and a muse sung, played and directed? There are some ...

In "Tales of Hoffmann," by Jacques Offenbach, enjoy a fantastical journey through the doomed romances of the poet, Hoffmann. Hounded by his nemesis and accompanied by Nicklausse, his ever-faithful ...

At center, from left: Kang Wang, Kathryn Lewek and Emily Fons, along with the Palm Beach Opera Chorus, in a scene from Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann," at Palm Beach Opera. The final performance ...

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