Los cuentos de Hoffmann by Offenbach, dom. 25 dic 2022, De (2022/2022), Dirigido por Laurent Pelly, Director Markus Stenz, Dominic Limburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlín, Alemania

LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN are a mystery. Not completed by Offenbach himself, handed down in numerous versions and variants, this opéra fantastique is a symbol of one of its central themes: the magical, never-ending entanglements of artistic processes. At the same time, Jacques Offenbach, the king of the opéra bouffe, not only created a lasting monument to himself with his last work, but also to the French enthusiasm for ETA Hoffmann. As the protagonist of his own stories - from "Sandman" to "Rat Krespel" to the "Adventures of New Year's Eve" - ​​the Berlin poet has to grapple with the consequences of his rampant imagination. The libretto by Jules Barbier and Offenbach's music unfold a whole hall of mirrors of complex images of artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The multi-layered, ambiguous nature of Hoffmann's characters and their motivations, the mystery of fantasy, also interests the French star director Laurent Pelly in his production of CONTES D'HOFFMANN, which he staged at different locations because of its great power of persuasion. The focus of this game version of the critical edition by Jean-Christophe Keck is the poet Hoffmann, for whom the boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred. Alcohol and love intoxication inspire and ruin the artist, dreams and reality, facts and free invention grow wildly confused and open up different perspectives on the people and their intentions. The staging combines magical stage effects with a nuanced character direction to a theater language in the spirit of Offenbach,