Hoffmanns Erzählungen an der Volksoper Wien: Sprechstunde mit der Muse

Attilio Glaser (Hoffmann) und Wallis Giunta (Die Muse / Nicklausse)

Attilio Glaser (Hoffmann) und Anna Simińska (Olympia)

Axelle Fanyo (Antonia) und Annely Peebo (Die Stimme der Mutter)

Attilio Glaser (Hoffmann) und Hedwig Ritter (Giulietta)

Hoffmanns Erzählungen

By Snapdragon, 09 June 2026

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“Axelle Fanyo gab ein überragendes Hausdebüt mit einer satt tönenden Antonia”

Reviewed at Volksoper Wien, Vienna on 7 June 2026

Offenbach, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)

Volksoper Wien

Emmanuel Villaume, Conductor

Lotte de Beer, Director

Christof Hetzer, Set Designer

Jorine van Beek, Costume Designer

Alex Brok, Lighting Designer

Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper

Chorus of the Vienna Volksoper

Axelle Fanyo, Antonia

Anna Siminska, Olympia

Hedwig Ritter, Giulietta

Wallis Giunta, Nicklausse, The Muse

Attilio Glaser, Hoffmann

Josef Wagner, Coppélius, Dapertutto, Lindorf, Miracle

Lara Pauser, Stella

Annely Peebo, Voice of Antonia's Mother

Robert Bartneck, Andrès, Cochenille, Frantz, Pitichinaccio

Aaron-Casey Gould, Nathanaël, Spalanzani

Pablo Santa Cruz, Hermann

Stefan Cerny, Crespel

Michael Arivony, Peter Schlémil

An empty glitter bomb: Aschenbrödels Traum at the Volksoper Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 4th December

A dizzying premise from Martina Eisenreich and Axel Ranisch, loosely drawing on Johann Strauss II’s unfinished ballet Aschenbrödel, which tries to be everything, all at once.

***11

Death, interrupted: KaiserRequiem moves at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 25th January

Omer Meir Wellber’s Mozart-Ullmann mash-up sounds like a terrible idea, but absolutely hits the mark.

****1

Paging Dr Freud! Iolanta and the Nutcracker at the Volksoper Wien

Mark Pullinger, 5th December

When is The Nutcracker not The Nutcracker? When's it's mashed together with Tchaikovsky's Iolanta to represent the blind princess’ inner world in a dark interpretation.

****1

Ella Milch-Sheriff’s Alma emerges as a dark triumph at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 31st October

A haunting, musically compelling impression of a woman whose life was shaped by creation, loss, and unfulfilled thirst for personal expression.

****1

Femicide! A controversial Carmen from Lotte de Beer at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 6th October

Lotte de Beer’s new retelling at the Volksoper reintroduces the element of shock into Bizet's popular opera.

****1

The subconscious at play: Lady in the Dark at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 18th December

Kurt Weill's musical, with its focus on psychoanalysis, makes its Austrian premiere in the city of Sigmund Freud.

****1

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Snapdragon

Snapdragon is an experienced concert- and opera-goer in Vienna and other music metropoles. Musical emphases include opera (especially Baroque opera) and piano music. As an Austrian native, Snapdragon can’t resist an operetta every now and then.

Sprechstunde mit der Muse: Hoffmanns Erzählungen an der Volksoper Wien