Artist

Admin

Set designer

Stefano Poda

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Singer

Bass

Luca Dall'Amico

Luther

Crespel

Opéra Royal de Wallonie - Liège

Opéra de Lausanne

Conductor

Giampaolo Bisanti

Stage director

Soprano

Jessica Pratt

Olympia

Antonia

Juliet

Stella

Bass-baritone

Erwin Schrott

Lindorf

Coppelius

Miracle

Dapertutto

Mezzo-soprano

Julie Boulianne

Nicklausse

La Muse

Tenor

Vincent Ordonneau

Andrès

Cochineal

Frantz

Pitichinaccio

Baritone

Samuel Namotte

Herman

Julie Bailly

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

Roger Joakim

Schlemil

Orchestra

Royal Opera of Wallonia Orchestra

Others

Choeur de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

Jonathan Vork

Nathaniel

Choreographer

Arturo Chacón-Cruz

Hoffmann

Valentin Thill

Spalanzani

French

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

Liège

Belgium

Palais Opéra

Les contes d'Hoffmann Offenbach

Private

Public

The Tales of Hoffmann

Approved

The last work of the Mozart of the Champs-Élysées, Jacques Offenbach, is the only one that is completely operatic. Based on a play by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre, itself inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s famous Fantastic Tales, the work is particularly inspired, although unfinished. Legend has it that the composer died with the score in his hands. The Tales of Hoffmann will sometimes be mutilated or completed in order to present the masterpiece on stage. Recently, some musicological discoveries have been able to restore the essential parts that were missing. Although an amputee version was created posthumously in 1881, it was not until 1911 that the complete masterpiece in five acts, Offenbach’s sublime testament, was discovered.

The opera has a complex psychological structure that integrates, through different characters, all the facets of human phantasmagoria in the exact spirit of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original Fantastic Tales. But Les Contes d’Hoffmann, it is also unforgettable music, like the famous Barcarolle or the great aria of the doll Olympia, “Les Oiseaux dans la Charmille”, which made this work one of the most performed French operas in the world.

English

The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach, From (2023/2023), Directed by Stefano Poda,, Conductor Giampaolo Bisanti, Palais Opéra, Liège, Belgium

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer

Program, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues