| Offenbach, Jacques (1819-1880) | Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Hoffmanns Erzählungen) | Libretto von Jules Barbier |
| Komische Oper Berlin | ||
| Stefan Blunier | Musikalische Leitung | |
| Barrie Kosky | Regie | |
| Katrin Lea Tag | Bühnenbild, Kostüme | |
| Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin | ||
| Chorsolisten der Komischen Oper Berlin | ||
| Edgaras Montvidas | Tenor | Hoffmann |
| Dimitry Ivashchenko | Bass | Lindorf |
| Nicole Chevalier | Sopran | Antonia, Olympia, Giulietta, Stella |
| Karolina Gumos | Mezzosopran | Nicklausse, Die Muse, Antonias Mutter |
| Uwe Schönbeck | Schauspiel | Hoffmann als alter Mann |
| Dominik Köninger | Bariton | Hoffmann als junger Mann |
| Peter Renz | Tenor | Andrès, Pitichinaccio |
| Philipp Meierhöfer | Bass | Cochenille, Peter Schlémil, Crespel |
Director Barrie Kosky presents Offenbach’s surreal and fantastical story as the disturbing nightmare of an artist who is in danger of losing ever more of his own self – in a production with only a single soprano in all three female roles, but several performers as Hoffmann. Here, the title role in the opera’s first two acts will be sung for the first time in the piece’s 132-year performance history in the way that the composer originally planned: by a baritone!
Offenbach, the Cologne-born Jew in Paris, has fused Jewish, German and French elements in his music to form something new, something which shaped the Paris music scene to such an extent that it today seems genuinely French to us.
Tickets 12 - 92€.
Performance in German and French with subtitles in English, German, French and Turkish.
