Organization

Singer

Soprano

Beate Ritter

Olympia

Vannina Santoni

Antonia

Géraldine Chauvet

Juliet

Tenor

Jean-François Borras

Hoffmann

Nicolas Courjal

Les 4 Diables

Mezzo-soprano

Carine Séchaye

Nicklausse

Frédéric Longbois

Les 4 Valets

Qiulin Zhang

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

Marcin Habela

Spalanzani

Bass

Alexandre Diakoff

Luther

Crespel

Jean Miannay

Nathaniel

Baritone

Mohamed Haidar

Herman

Schlemil

Conductor

Jean-Yves Ossonce

Stage director

Stefano Poda

Set designer

Lighting designer

Chorus master

Patrick Marie Aubert

Assistant

Paolo Giani Cei

La Muse

Costume designer

Opéra de Lausanne

Others

Chœur de l'Opéra de Lausanne

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

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

Lausanne

Switzerland

Les contes d'Hoffmann Offenbach

Public

The Tales of Hoffmann

Approved

Celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Jacques Offenbach by opening the season with the most serious of the pieces composed by the master of comic opera. As Offenbach died while it was being rehearsed, Les contes d’Hoffmann remained unfinished. The work thus floats in a glorious feeling of infinity, leaving free course to interpretation and lifting its creator to the promising rank of opera composer. How was this German composer able to triumph on the French scene, becoming in just a few years ‘King of the Second Empire’ before finding success on a worldwide scale? For the story, Offenbach returns to the romantic universe of E.T.A. Hoffman, author, artist and composer with an eventful life. Does this dreamlike world, populated by ghosts of a dangerously recent past, memories and fleeting images not also reflect the intimate life of Offenbach in person or, in short, the artist? We must in any case believe that the musical imagination of the young comic opera cellist beautified the airs he heard from the orchestra pit to become the genius we know today.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble