Hoffmanns Erzählungen

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Rolando Villazón

Hoffmann

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Diana Damrau

Olympia / Giulietta / Antonia / Stella

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John Relyea

Lindorff / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto

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Kevin Conners

Cochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz

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Angela Brower

Nicklausse / La Muse

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Ulrich Reß

Spalanzani

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Dean Power

Nathanaël

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Tim Kuypers

Hermann

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Original Music Composer	Jacques Offenbach
	Music Director	Constantinos Carydis
Directing	Director	Michael Beyer
Writing	Original Story	E. T. A. Hoffmann
	Writer	Jules Barbier
Art	Production Design	Richard Jones
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