Letitia Vitelaru / Ocene

Jacques Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann came back to the Mexican stage after an absence of more than thirty years. Four performances were given at Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes with a very strong cast in a rather controversial new production, using the Michael Kaye and Jean Christophe Keck edition. We attended the first performance of the run and lots of things have to be said about the staging by Benjamin Cann, the edition used in the performances and the quality of the singing and musical interpretation.