Organization

Singer

Tenor

Mirko Roschkowski

Hoffmann

Soprano

Victoria Kunze

Olympia

Mariann Grieshaber

Antonia

Mezzo-soprano

Patrizia Häusermann

Nicklausse

Ljuban Živanović

Spalanzani

Baritone

Marcin Hutek

Schlemil

Stage director

Johannes Pölzgutter

Conductor

Marc Niemann

Costume designer

Julius Theodor Semmelmann

Set designer

Dramaturge

Markus Tatzig

Chorus master

Mario Orlando El Fakih Hernández

Signe Heiberg

Juliet

Bass-baritone

Marian Pop

Coppelius

Miracle

Dapertutto

Andrew Irwin

Cochineal

Frantz

Pitichinaccio

MacKenzie Gallinger

Nathaniel

Martin Berner

Herman

Patrick Ruyters

William

Bass

Ulrich Burdack

Crespel

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & EVENING GAME LINE

Edison Vigil

ASSISTANT STAGE & COSTUME

Theresa Steiner

STUDY LINE

Hartmut Brüsch

MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT

Tonio Shiga

La Muse

Stadttheater Bremerhaven

Others

choir of the Bremerhaven City Theater

Orchestra

Bremerhaven Philharmonic Orchestra

French

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

Bremerhaven

Germany

Stadttheater

Big House

Les contes d'Hoffmann

Public

The Tales of Hoffmann

German

Approved

Hoffmann is restless. A poet, dreamer, drinker and eccentric who dreams himself in fantastic worlds dominated by women: the soulless doll Olympia, the terminally ill singer Antonia and the calculating courtesan Giulietta. He directs their stories and destinies, and yet none of them wants to prove to be the longed-for ideal lover. Like demons, bizarre figures like Spalanzani, the creator Olympias, and the eye seller Coppelius, Antonia's father Crespel and a diabolical Doctor Miracle or the seedy Dapertutto pursue him. Only the muse can save him from a final loss of identity.

The unbroken success of Offenbach's last opera is based on the one hand on the genius of his music, in which we hear everything we know from his operettas - only more radical and more acute in the pendulum between the grotesque, biting comedy and black humor. The play that Jules Barbier and Michel Carré concentrate on from the stories of ETA Hoffmann, the forefather of the fantastic genre and the romantic romanticism, also helps to achieve a breakthrough. Offenbach dies before the score is complete. With a work without a final version, he leaves a playground for ardent music research and thus the need to always find a new form for Les contes d'Hoffmann .

English

The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach, From (2021/2021), Directed by Johannes Pölzgutter,, Conductor Marc Niemann, Stadttheater, Bremerhaven, Germany

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