Hoffmanns Erzählungen
Hoffmanns Erzählungen

Hoffmanns Erzählungen

8.0

2 hr 48 min

2011-10-30

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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.

Drama

Fantasy

Music

Trailers

Characters

Rolando Villazón

Rolando Villazón

Hoffmann

Diana Damrau

Diana Damrau

Olympia / Giulietta / Antonia / Stella

John Relyea

John Relyea

Lindorff / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto

Kevin Conners

Kevin Conners

Cochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz

Angela Brower

Angela Brower

Nicklausse / La Muse

Ulrich Reß

Ulrich Reß

Spalanzani

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