The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the ...

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I first came across Jacques Offenbach's opera Fantasio on German radio about 20 years ago. The recording they were playing was much older still and wasn't authentic in any way. But it was enough to ...

What: Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann,” part of the 2014-15 “Met Opera: Live in HD” broadcast season Where: The Finkel Auditorium at the Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge campus, 107 ...

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, ...

Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is a comic opera. Its score was composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French text written by Ludovic Halévy and ...

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 ...

The poet Hoffman (Charles Workman) is tormented. His beloved Stella, an opera singer, performs Mozart’s Don Giovanni outside the inn he sits at. He is not alone, with him are his friend Nicklausse ...

If there was one legend sure to source its fair share of opera, it had to be the tale of Orpheus, the Greek hero who could charm the birds out of the trees with his music. Monteverdi, Telemann, and ...

Netflix doesn’t qualify as a solo offender when it comes to Gallic stereotypes, as three musical theater works on the city’s stages show. By Laura Cappelle Our critics and writers have selected ...