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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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 ...

Director Bartlett Sher achieves the distinction of having not one or two but three shows playing at Lincoln Center this season. In addition to his longrunning Broadway revival of “South Pacific,” the ...

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 ...

The world-renowned tenor plays the visionary writer ETA Hoffman in Jacques Offenbach's extravagent opera which blurs the lines between the real and the imaginary. It’s a fantastical odyssey, a tale in ...

Wild fantasies take hold in Offenbach’s compellingly strange opera; Lawrence Power is more than a match for Magnus Lindberg’s new Viola Concerto; and to the underworld with the Berlin Phil One of his ...

Star tenor Juan Diego Florez takes to the stage as visionary writer ETA Hoffman in Jacques Offenbach's fantastical odyssey at the Salle Garnier in Monte Carlo. Jacques Offenbach died before the ...

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Offenbach, who also launched avant-garde innovations in stagecraft and design, played a leading role in cultural change, not only in music but also in literature, art, and politics, as he offered an ...

English Touring Opera’s reinvention of the work in terms of German early cinema suits it well, even if not all the ideas come off. Sam Furness is terrific in the title role James Bonas’s English ...