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les contes d'hoffmann
Jacques Offenbach
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Opera in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue (1881)
- Music
- Jacques Offenbach
- Libretto
- Jules Barbier
- Conductor
- Philippe Jordan
- Director
- Robert Carsen
- Olympia
- Nadine Koutcher
- Giulietta
- Kate Aldrich
- Antonia
- Ermonela Jaho
- La muse, Nicklausse
- Stéphanie d'Oustrac
- La mère d'Antonia
- Doris Soffel
- Hoffmann
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Ramón Vargas
Stefano Secco - Spalanzani
- Rodolphe Briand
- Nathanaël
- Cyrille Lovighi
- Luther, Crespel
- Paul Gay
- Andrès, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio, Frantz
- Yann Beuron
- Lindorf, Coppélius, Dapertutto, Miracle
- Roberto Tagliavini
- Hermann
- Laurent Laberdesque
- Schlemil
- François Lis
- Set design
- Michael Levine
- Lighting design
- Jean Kalman
- Choreography
- Philippe Giraudeau
- Dramaturgy
- Ian Burton
- Chorus master
- José Luis Basso
Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
French and English surtitles
Ce spectacle fera l’objet d’une captation audiovisuelle
Une co-production Opéra national de Paris et Fra Productions avec le soutien du CNC et la participation de France 5, réalisée par François Roussillon.
Diffusion en direct au cinéma le 15 novembre, diffusion sur Culture Box à partir du 16 novembre.
Diffusion sur France 5 ultérieurement et sur France Musique le 27 novembre.
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"We are made great by love and greater still by our tears."Hoffmann, Épilogue
By the time he came to tackle the composition of Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Offenbach’s opus already included more than a hundred operas. Left unfinished when he died during rehearsals in October 1880, his last work combines fantasy, gravity and humour in an unexpectedly innovative synthesis of opera buffa, romantic opera and grand opera. This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta. Robert Carsen’s spectacular production highlights the melancholy genius of a man marked by life, with a coherence and dramatic sense remarkable for a work that leaves numerous questions unanswered. Under the baton of Philippe Jordan, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Ermonela Jaho, Kate Aldrich, Yann Beuron and Ramón Vargas and Stefano Secco in the main role, interpret the legendary airs of this work whose brilliant mystery will continue to dazzle opera houses for countless years to come.
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