Les Contes d'Hoffmann at Komische Oper Berlin
Dates: (12/25/2015 - 7/9/2016 )
Komische Oper Berlin |
Behrenstraße 55-57
Berlin,Berlin 10117
Phone: +49 (0)30 202 60 0
Tickets: €12.00 - €92.00
Running Time: 3 hours, 5 minutes (one intermission)
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Hoffmann's fate comprises three women. Three unhappy love affairs. Or are they in fact three female forms which exist only in Hoffmann's imagination? – Olympia the doll, Antonia the singer and Giulietta the courtesan. The artificial body without a soul, the artist without a voice, and the seductress without a heart. They not least also represent Hoffmann's own fears of loss: loss of reality, loss of his own artistic expression, and loss of identity. At the end, Hoffmann must flee as a murderer – flee from himself and his fantasies, which increasingly come to resemble a bad trip.
The lasting success of Offenbach's fantastical opera, whose inaugural performance was held only posthumously and under difficult circumstances, is not just due to its fantastical plot, but also the inexhaustible creative richness of the Offenbachian score. »The Song of Little Zaches«, Olympia's Aria or the famous barcarole are just three of this opera's numerous outstanding pieces. Offenbach, the Cologne-born Jew in Paris, has fused Jewish, German and French elements in his music to form something new, something which shaped the Paris music scene to such an extent that it today seems genuinely French to us.
Cast and Creative team for Les Contes d'Hoffmann at Komische Oper Berlin
Crew
Musical direction
Daniel Huppert
Staging
Barrie Kosky
Stage design and costumes
Katrin Lea Tag
Dramaturgy
Ulrich Lenz
Chorus
David Cavelius
Lighting
Diego Leetz
Cast
Hoffmann 1
Uwe Schönbeck
Hoffmann 2
Dominik Köninger
Hoffmann 3
Alexander Lewis
Stella / Olympia / Antonia / Giulietta
Nicole Chevalier
La Muse / La mère d’Antonia
Karolina Gumos
Lindorf/Coppélius/Le docteur Miracle/ Dapertutto
Dimitry Ivashchenko
Andrès/Spalanzani/ Pitichinaccio
Peter Renz
Cochenille/Crespel/Peter Schlémil
Philipp Meierhöfer
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