Hoffmann

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Deutsche Oper's newly commissioned Hoffmann delights and bewilders

Christie Franke, 18th September

Offenbach’s opera The Tales of Hoffmann received a makeover Wednesday night in the world première performance of Anne Champert’s adaptation, Hoffmann. Eschewing the traditional for the phantasmagoric, Hoffmann puts the strangeness of E.T.

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