Hoffmanns Erzählungen

Bande annonce

Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach that combines three short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann into a haunting whole: a melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer. One of the questions this opera poses for any director is how to link the 'tales' of Hoffmann's three lost loves together and knit them satisfactorily into the Prologue and Epilogue. In this production, Richard Jones solves the puzzle by turning it into an autobiographical journey which ends with a grand meet-up of all the characters Hoffmann has encountered: for once, Hoffmann is not presented as a rollicking kind of drunken story-spinner, but rather a sad-eyed, sobered-up depressive, who reaches for the bottle only because his disastrous love life has gone wrong yet again.

Genre: Drame, Fantastique, Musique

Jeter: Rolando Villazón, Diana Damrau, John Relyea, Kevin Conners, Angela Brower, Ulrich Reß, Dean Power, Tim Kuypers, Christian Rieger, Andrew Owens, Christoph Stephinger

Équipage: Richard Jones (Production Design), E. T. A. Hoffmann (Original Story), Michael Beyer (Director), Jules Barbier (Writer), Jacques Offenbach (Original Music Composer)

Pays: Germany

Durée: 168 minutes

Qualité: HD

Libération: 2011

imdb rating 7

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