CinemaOSMovie · 2011 · 2h 48m

Hoffmanns Erzählungen

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Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach that combines three short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann into a haunting whole: a melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer. One of the questions this opera poses for any director is how to link the 'tales' of Hoffmann's three lost loves together and knit them satisfactorily into the Prologue and Epilogue. In this production, Richard Jones solves the puzzle by turning it into an autobiographical journey which ends with a grand meet-up of all the characters Hoffmann has encountered: for once, Hoffmann is not presented as a rollicking kind of drunken story-spinner, but rather a sad-eyed, sobered-up depressive, who reaches for the bottle only because his disastrous love life has gone wrong yet again.

Directed byMichael Beyer

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 48m
Language
FR
Released
October 30, 2011
Studios
BRARTEBayerische Staatsoper

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Rolando Villazón

Rolando Villazón

Hoffmann

Diana Damrau

Diana Damrau

Olympia / Giulietta / Antonia / Stella

John Relyea

John Relyea

Lindorff / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto

Kevin Conners

Cochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz

Angela Brower

Angela Brower

Nicklausse / La Muse

Ulrich Reß

Spalanzani

Dean Power

Nathanaël

Tim Kuypers

Hermann

Christian Rieger

Schlémil

Andrew Owens

Wilhelm

Creative team
Directed by
Michael Beyer
Michael Beyer
Written by
Jules Barbier
Jules Barbier

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