Name: Les contes d'Hoffmann
Start: 2022-06-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Organization

Mezzo-soprano

Jana Kurucová

La Muse

Tenor

Robert Watson

Hoffmann

Soprano

Heather Engebretson

Olympia

Antonia

Juliet

Stella

Nicklausse

Burkhard Ulrich

Spalanzani

Andrew Dickinson

Andrès

Cochineal

Frantz

Pitichinaccio

Baritone

Dean Murphy

Herman

Tyler Zimmerman

Schlemil

Bass

Tobias Kehrer

Luther

Gina Perregrino

Voice of Antonia's mother/The voice from the grave

Stage director

Laurent Pelly

Conductor

Emmanuel Villaume

Lighting designer

Joël Adam

Costume designer

Set designer

Chantal Thomas

Video designer

Charles Carcopino

Chorus master

Jeremy Bines

Jean-Jacques Delmotte

Bass-baritone

Byung Gil Kim

Lindorf

Coppelius

Miracle

Dapertutto

François Lis

Crespel

Andrei Danilov

Nathaniel

Derrick Ballard

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Opéra de Lyon

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Others

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

San Francisco Opera

fransk

Les contes d'Hoffmann -  (The Tales of Hoffmann)

Berlin

Germany

Les contes d'Hoffmann Offenbach

Public

The Tales of Hoffmann

tysk

engelsk

Approved

With LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN, Jacques Offenbach has composed a poetic homage to the great romanticist E. T. A. Hoffmann. As in the writer's literary tales, the...

The muse climbs out of a barrel. Namely a wine barrel, about which the poet Hoffmann sings a song in Offenbach's last opera. Fatally intoxicated, he spins three stories about his unhappy love: to the dolled-up artist Olympia, the young girl Antonia and the courtesan Giulietta. Three women – or is it just one after all? Stella, the star in the opera sky, who celebrates success on stage as Donna Anna, while Hoffmann, who has meanwhile been completely destroyed, drowns in drunkenness at Lutter & Wegner. In LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN, Jacques Offenbach, the undisputed king of opéra bouffe, struck a serious note in an unmistakable way. ETA Hoffmann's stories, skilfully woven into the opera's plot, form a panopticon of aesthetic concerns and soon reflect grotesquely,

The French theater director, opera director and costume designer Laurent Pelly brings his internationally successful production to Berlin. Darkly playful, in imaginative stage worlds and moving choral images, this production paints the poet Hoffmann's slide into delusion and intoxication in detail. At the podium stands Enrique Mazzola, who is already known to the audience of the Deutsche Oper Berlin as an outstanding interpreter of the French repertoire.

English

Forestillingkreditter (Ensemble & produksjonsteam )

Cast

Mannskap

Ensemble

Medprodusent