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Hoffmanns Erzählungen
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Hoffmanns Erzählungen

2011-10-30 · 168 min · ★ 8.0

Drama · Fantasy · Music

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.

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Directors
Michael Beyer
Production companies
BR, Bayerische Staatsoper, ARTE
Countries
Germany
Status
Released

Top Cast

Rolando VillazónRolando VillazónHoffmann
Diana DamrauDiana DamrauOlympia / Giulietta / Antonia / Stella
John RelyeaJohn RelyeaLindorff / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto
Kevin ConnersCochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz
Angela BrowerAngela BrowerNicklausse / La Muse
Ulrich ReßSpalanzani
Dean PowerNathanaël
Tim KuypersHermann
Christian RiegerSchlémil
Andrew OwensWilhelm
Christoph StephingerCrespel / Luther

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