The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the ...

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BERLIN — The composer Jacques Offenbach captured the streets of mid-19th-century Paris like no other. But while he produced about 130 scores for the stage, his profile is often reduced to a spirited ...

Opera À La Carte San Diego, which made its debut in May 2024 with an intimate East Village production of Puccini’s “La bohème ...

Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is a comic opera. Its score was composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French text written by Ludovic Halévy and ...

What: Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann,” part of the 2014-15 “Met Opera: Live in HD” broadcast season Where: The Finkel Auditorium at the Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge campus, 107 ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A new production of the Tales of Hoffmann at Geneva's Grand Theater creates a mix of art, sex and death in an unusually nightmarish and nihilistic reading of Jacques Offenbach's ...

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(AP) Jacques Offenbach’s “La Perichole” struggled to break through and was ultimately suffocated in Christopher Alden’s heavy-handed and annoying production, the last of New York City Opera’s second ...

It isn’t pleasant to write critically of a show that had only half an audience to begin with. But neither is it pleasant for folks to pay up to $85 to see opera reduced to high school humor and ...