Hoffmanns Erzählungen

Hoffmanns Erzählungen

2011 fr 168 minutes

Rating: 8

Plot

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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Cast

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

Christoph Stephinger

Christoph Stephinger

Crespel / Luther

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