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Hoffmanns Erzählungen (2011)
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.
Updated Jun 1 2020
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Cast
Rolando Villazón
Hoffmann
Kevin Conners
Cochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz
John Relyea
Lindorff / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto
Angela Brower
Nicklausse / La Muse
Ulrich Reß
Spalanzani
Dean Power
Nathanaël
Tim Kuypers
Hermann
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Crew
Jacques Offenbach
Original Music Composer
Richard Jones
Production Design
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Original Story
Jules Barbier
Writer
Michael Beyer
Director
Constantinos Carydis
Music Director
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