French composer Jacques Offenbach was famous for his operettas, bubbly, lighthearted musicals that satirized the conventions of the day. But he wanted to write serious opera, and the result was “Tales ...

A bittersweet story of love wasted and lost, the Jacques Offenbach opera “The Tales of Hoffmann” has many a party scene, from its carousing opening scene in a tavern, to an elegant ball to a raucous ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A new production of the Tales of Hoffmann at Geneva's Grand Theater creates a mix of art, sex and death in an unusually nightmarish and nihilistic reading of Jacques Offenbach's ...

UNL Opera presented Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann” Friday evening at the Kimball Recital Hall. The opera tells the story of the poet Hoffmann’s three different loves. UNL Opera director ...

Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann opens the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season on October 5. French tenor Benjamin Bernheim makes his Met role debut as Hoffmann, joined by soprano Erin ...

An aging Parisian, a composer of frothy musical plays, approached his death. He was immensely successful, but knew that most of his efforts (and he had written more than 100 works) were forgotten at ...

A lovesick poet, a goddess disguised as a man and a slew of drunken students walk into a tavern. So begins Los Angeles Opera’s current production of Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann,” the ...

When Plácido Domingo walked on stage before conducting Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night, he got what he always gets: an excited ovation. Who’s not ...

The soprano Diana Damrau and the bass-baritone Nicolas Testé were scheduled to begin a six-performance run last Saturday of Los Angeles Opera’s production of Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann returns to the Met Opera on September 26 ...