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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “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 ...

"The Tales of Hoffmann" was Offenbach's attempt to conquer the world of serious opera after a long and lucrative career spent writing ebullient comic operettas. The new production that opened the San ...

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Jacques Offenbach's "Tales of Hoffmann," one of the most popular and oft-staged operas in the world, opened the Washington Opera season on Saturday night at the Kennedy Center Opera House. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...