Event listing: Tales of Hoffmann | Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Grand Theatre | Sat 25 May 2013 at 19:30

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Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Grand Theatre10 Salisbury Road Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

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Programme

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)

Libretto by Jules Barbier

Performers

Opera Hong Kong
Opera Hong Kong Chorus
Warren Mok	Producer
Jean-Louis Grinda	Director
Emmanuel Joel-Hornak	Conductor
Hong Kong Sinfonietta
Luca Lombardo	Tenor	Hoffmann
Sinéad Mulhern	Soprano	Antonia
Nicolas Cavallier	Bass	Lindorf
Isabelle Philippe	Soprano	Olympia
Aurhelia Varak	Mezzo-soprano	The Muse

Reviews of Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) directed by Jean-Louis Grinda

*****

Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, March 2019

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A slick and enjoyable Tales of Hoffmann by Opera Hong Kong

Alan Yu, 25th May

Jacques Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a fine example of how the ridiculous can indeed be sublime. Three E.T.A. Hoffmann stories about otherworldly love affairs with defective femmes fatales, one of whom turns out to be a mechanical doll, connected only by the author’s gullible alter-ego as protagonist, scale the heights of the phantasmagorical.

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