Hoffmanns Erzählungen

Hoffmanns Erzählungen (2011)


  • Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
  • Release Date: 2011-10-30
  • Runtime: 2h 48min
  • Language: Français
  • Production Company: BR
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Director: Michael Beyer

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Summary

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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  • Rolando Villazón

    as Hoffmann
  • Diana Damrau

    as Olympia / Giulietta / Antonia / Stella
  • John Relyea

    as Lindorff / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto
  • Kevin Conners

    as Cochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz
  • Angela Brower

    as Nicklausse / La Muse
  • Ulrich Reß

    as Spalanzani
  • Dean Power

    as Nathanaël
  • Tim Kuypers

    as Hermann
  • Christian Rieger

    as Schlémil
  • Andrew Owens

    as Wilhelm
  • Christoph Stephinger

    as Crespel / Luther
Art Richard Jones Production Design
Writing E. T. A. Hoffmann Original Story
Directing Michael Beyer Director
Writing Jules Barbier Writer
Sound Jacques Offenbach Original Music Composer
Sound Constantinos Carydis Music Director