Fact file
| Composer | Offenbach, Jacques (1819-1880) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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BerlinLes Contes d'HoffmannNew production
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Enrique Mazzola; Laurent Pelly; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Chantal Thomas; Daniel Johansson; Robert Watson
MoscowLes Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Evgeny Brazhnik; Alexander Titel; Stanislavsky Opera; Valery Leventhal; Chinghis Ayusheev; Najmiddin Mavlyanov
StuttgartLes Contes d'Hoffmann
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Marc Piollet; Christoph Marthaler; Oper Stuttgart; Anna Viebrock; Atalla Ayan; Beate Ritter
NaplesLes Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Pinchas Steinberg; Laurent Pelly; San Carlo Theatre; Chantal Thomas; Jean-Jacques Delmotte; John Osborn; Arturo Chacón-Cruz
ViennaHoffmanns Erzählungen
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Thomas Böttcher; Renaud Doucet; Volksoper Wien; André Barbe; Chorus of the Vienna Volksoper
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Mixed Evening at Deutsche Oper Berlin's new Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Deutsche Oper Berlin staged an ambitious production by Laurence Pelly with mixed results. The performance included new discoveries and young singers brought fresh energy to the evening.
Irish National Opera's futuristic Hoffmann
Tom Creed's take on Offenbach's opéra fantastique works best in the Olympia act in this new production in Dublin.
A superb, sinister Hoffmann at Dutch National Opera
Selectively unearthed from current critical editions, this fabulously performed new Hoffmann plumbs the murky depths of its antihero’s psyche.
Grigòlo stars as Debus leads thrilling Hoffmann at The Met
Bartlett Sher's production of The Tales of Hoffmann, revived at The Met, takes a Kafka-esque, surreal view of the opera.
Testé, Spyres and Pudova stand out in Hoffmann
Offenbach's vivid setting of E.T.A. Hoffmann's fantastic tales gets an enjoyable outing, with Spyres, Testé and Pudova the undoubted stars of the show.