📜 Overview:
Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach that combines three short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann into a haunting whole: a melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer. One of the questions this opera poses for any director is how to link the 'tales' of Hoffmann's three lost loves together and knit them satisfactorily into the Prologue and Epilogue. In this production, Richard Jones solves the puzzle by turning it into an autobiographical journey which ends with a grand meet-up of all the characters Hoffmann has encountered: for once, Hoffmann is not presented as a rollicking kind of drunken story-spinner, but rather a sad-eyed, sobered-up depressive, who reaches for the bottle only because his disastrous love life has gone wrong yet again.
🌏 Languages Available:
French
📆 Date Released:
2011-10-30
⌚ Running Time:
168 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
0.0
Beloved Cast
Hoffmann
Rolando Villazón
Olympia / Giulietta / Antonia / Stella
Diana Damrau
Lindorff / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto
John Relyea
Cochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz
Kevin Conners
Nicklausse / La Muse
Angela Brower
Spalanzani
Ulrich Reß
Nathanaël
Dean Power
Hermann
Tim Kuypers
Schlémil
Christian Rieger
Wilhelm
Andrew Owens
Crespel / Luther
Christoph Stephinger
