Movie: Hoffmanns Erzählungen

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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

Dean Power
Dean Power

Nathanaël

Tim Kuypers
Tim Kuypers

Hermann

Christian Rieger
Christian Rieger

Schlémil

Andrew Owens
Andrew Owens

Wilhelm

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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.

  • Release Date

    2011-10-30

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    8

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    Français
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