The eponymous stories in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann each feature an inamorata from the German writer’s life. In Damiano Michieletto’s new production at the Royal Opera House they chart a ...

The Jacques Offenbach fantasy opera has been transformed to the screen with great imagination and taste, with an unusual amount of inventiveness and effects, for a lush, resplendent production ...

‘The Tales of Hoffmann’, an ‘opera fantastique’, was Jacques Offenbach’s valedictory work and an attempt by the composer, the ...

Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with ... had written based on stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). Approximate duration: 2 h 45 min ...

Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

“With this lavish colour production of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffman, we are in more conventional, though never dull, territory. It is a handsome, well sung version which stands up well to ...