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Strong storytelling in the Theater an der Wien’s Tales of Hoffmann

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Reviewed at Theater an der Wien, Vienna on 2 April 2012
Offenbach, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Riccardo Frizza, Conductor
William Friedkin, Director
Kurt Streit, Hoffmann
Mari Eriksmoen, Olympia
Juanita Lascarro, Antonia
Angel Blue, Giulietta
Magdalena Anna Hofmann, Stella
Roxana Constantinescu, The Muse
Aris Argiris, Lindorf
Andreas Conrad, Frantz
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
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