In addition to its charms for an audience, Offenbach's opera "The Tales of Hoffmann" maintains a particular allure for artists of all kinds, for one obvious reason. It's all about them. A three-part ...

Given the continuing popularity of Jacques Offenbach's final opera, nobody is ever sure exactly what might go into any specific performance. Many hands got to work on "Tales of Hoffmann" while ...

“The Tales of Hoffmann,” Jacques Offenbach’s bounteously imaginative mingling of reality and fantasy, stands as one of the opera world’s most peculiar and wonderful masterpieces. The opera’s unwieldy ...

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When Jacques Offenbach began writing The Tales of Hoffmann, in 1877, he hoped the opera would boost his reputation to a whole new level. It did exactly that — but unfortunately, the composer never ...

Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann has a reputation for being an unwieldy, overblown work, but Damiano Michieletto’s new staging, that arrives in Bow Street via Opera Australia and La Fenice, ...

Looking for an escape — from reality? The Baltimore Opera Company has just the ticket. Jacques Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) is not called an “opera fantastique” for ...

Opera in Williamsburg presents: The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach, with English subtitles. Opera in Williamsburg presents: The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach. A beautiful fantasy of the ...

Being a relative newcomer to the world of opera, I did some light research. The Tales of Hoffmann was written by Jacques Offenbach - a German-born French composer who penned nearly 100 operettas ...

The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the ...