Les contes d'Hoffmann at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille
Dates: (11/3/2016 - 11/27/2016 )
Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille |
Place de la Bastille
Paris,Île-de-France 75012
Phone: +33 (0)1 71 25 24 23
Running Time: 3h25 with 2 intervals
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"We are made great by love and greater still by our tears."
Hoffmann, Épilogue
By the time he came to tackle the composition of Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Offenbach’s opus already included more than a hundred operas. Left unfinished when he died during rehearsals in October 1880, his last work combines fantasy, gravity and humour in an unexpectedly innovative synthesis of opera buffa, romantic opera and grand opera. This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta. Robert Carsen’s spectacular production highlights the melancholy genius of a man marked by life, with a coherence and dramatic sense remarkable for a work that leaves numerous questions unanswered. Under the baton of Philippe Jordan, Sabine Devieilhe, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Kate Aldrich, Yann Beuron and Jonas Kaufmann in the main role, interpret the legendary airs of this work whose brilliant mystery will continue to dazzle opera houses for countless years to come.
Cast and Creative team for Les contes d'Hoffmann at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille
Music
Jacques Offenbach
Libretto
Jules Barbier
After Jules Barbier, Michel Carré
In french
Conductor
Philippe Jordan
Director
Robert Carsen
Olympia
Sabine Devieilhe
Giulietta
Kate Aldrich
Antonia
Ermonela Jaho
La muse, Nicklausse
Stéphanie d'Oustrac
Une voix
Doris Soffel
Hoffmann
Jonas Kaufmann
3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 nov.
Stefano Secco
21, 24, 27 nov.
Spalanzani
Rodolphe Briand
Nathanaël
Cyrille Lovighi
Luther, Crespel
Paul Gay
Andrès, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio, Frantz
Yann Beuron
Lindorf, Coppélius, Dapertutto, Miracle
Roberto Tagliavini
Hermann
Laurent Laberdesque
Schlemil
François Lis
Set design
Michael Levine
Lighting design
Jean Kalman
Choreography
Philippe Giraudeau
Dramaturgy
Ian Burton
Chorus master
José Luis Basso
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