Hoffmanns Erzählungen (2011)

ALL 10/30/2011 (fr) Drama, Fantasy, Music 168 Min
  • Release
    10/30/2011
  • Production
    BR, Bayerische Staatsoper, ARTE
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Hoffmanns Erzählungen
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

  1. Michael Beyer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Rolando Villazón

    Hoffmann

  2. Diana Damrau

    Olympia / Giulietta / Antonia / Stella

  3. John Relyea

    Lindorff / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto

  4. Kevin Conners

    Cochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz

  5. Angela Brower

    Nicklausse / La Muse

  6. Ulrich Reß

    Spalanzani

  7. Dean Power

    Nathanaël

  8. Tim Kuypers

    Hermann

  9. Christian Rieger

    Schlémil

  10. Andrew Owens

    Wilhelm

  11. Christoph Stephinger

    Crespel / Luther

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 11 , Crews : 6

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Hoffmanns Erzählungen (2011) 168 Min

ALL 10/30/2011 (fr)
Drama, Fantasy, Music
  • Release 10/30/2011
  • Production
    BR, Bayerische Staatsoper, ARTE
  • Original title Hoffmanns Erzählungen
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Michael Beyer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer