| Offenbach, Jacques (1819-1880) | Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) | Libretto by Jules Barbier |
| Komische Oper Berlin | ||
| Stefan Blunier | Conductor | |
| Barrie Kosky | Director | |
| Katrin Lea Tag | Set Designer, Costume Designer | |
| Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin | ||
| Chorsolisten der Komischen Oper Berlin | ||
| Edgaras Montvidas | Tenor | Hoffmann |
| Dimitry Ivashchenko | Bass | Lindorf |
| Nicole Chevalier | Soprano | Antonia, Olympia, Giulietta, Stella |
| Karolina Gumos | Mezzo-soprano | Nicklausse, The Muse, Voice of Antonia's Mother |
| Uwe Schönbeck | Actor | Hoffmann as an old man |
| Dominik Köninger | Baritone | Hoffmann as a young man |
| 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.
