Jacques Offenbach News

Vom 27. August bis 7. September 2014 findet in Basel das Theaterfestival Basel unter der Kunstlerischen Leitung von Carena Schlewitt statt. Der Vorverkauf startet am 24. Juni 2014 unter www.starticket.ch und an allen Postfilialen und Starticket-Vorverkaufsstellen. Informationen unter www.theaterfestival.ch.

Seattle Opera concludes its 50th Anniversary season, as well as the 31-year tenure of General Director Speight Jenkins with The Tales of Hoffmann (Les contes d'Hoffmann). An all-star cast sings Jacques Offenbach's tuneful score, chronicling famous writer E.T.A. Hoffmann's misadventures in love. The wild stories of Hoffmann's failed romances come alive with fantastical elements: a beautiful robot, an evil optician, a stolen shadow, death by music, and a mysterious boy/girl muse. The Tales of Hoffmann was first produced jointly by Dallas, Cincinnati, Minnesota, and Arizona operas in 2005. This timeless, stylish, and imaginative production returns to Seattle Opera today, May 3, and runs through Today, May 17.

Casting for the first two weeks of American Ballet Theatre's 2014 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie.

Today, we are taking a look at the spectacular new ballet extravaganza dancing its way into movie theaters nationwide later this week courtesy of SpectiCast, MOULIN ROUGE.

Seattle Opera concludes its 50th Anniversary season, as well as the 31-year tenure of General Director Speight Jenkins with The Tales of Hoffmann (Les contes d'Hoffmann). An all-star cast sings Jacques Offenbach's tuneful score, chronicling famous writer E.T.A. Hoffmann's misadventures in love. The wild stories of Hoffmann's failed romances come alive with fantastical elements: a beautiful robot, an evil optician, a stolen shadow, death by music, and a mysterious boy/girl muse. The Tales of Hoffmann was first produced jointly by Dallas, Cincinnati, Minnesota, and Arizona operas in 2005. This timeless, stylish, and imaginative production returns to Seattle Opera on Saturday, May 3, and runs through Saturday, May 17.

WIENER STAATSOPER LIVE ZU HAUSE: Funf Vorstellungen der Wiener Staatsoper * von 'La Boheme' bis 'Das schlaue Fuchslein' * werden bis Saisonende live in HD ubertragen

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live transmissions to more than 2,000 movie theaters in 65 countries around the world, will feature ten operas in the 2014-15 season, including all six new productions in the Met season. All ten performances, transmitted live from the Met stage, will feature the world's finest singers, conductors, and theatrical artists.

Amsterdam Marionette Theatre, since 1985, has carried on the European tradition of the classical marionette theatre (www.marionettetheatre.com). The next production will be Around Christmas: The Castle in the Air (No. 66!) by Jacques Offenbach.

Amsterdam Marionette Theatre, since 1985, has carried on the European tradition of the classical marionette theatre (www.marionettetheatre.com). The next production will be Around Christmas: The Castle in the Air (No. 66!) by Jacques Offenbach.

Mit „Viel Larm um Liebe" („The Firebrand of Florence") hebt die Staatsoperette Dresden einen Schatz aus der amerikanischen Schaffensperiode von Kurt Weill. Als Vorlage fur diese 1945 am Broadway uraufgefuhrte Operette diente das 1924 entstandene Schauspiel „The Firebrand" von Edwin Justus Mayer uber die amourosen Eskapaden des Bildhauers und Goldschmieds Benvenuto Cellini:

American Ballet Theatre's 2014 season at the Metropolitan Opera House was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. The season will be highlighted by the Company Premiere of Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, and a Shakespeare Celebration to include Ashton's The Dream and Alexei Ratmansky's The Tempest. Season revivals include Leonide Massine's Gaîté Parisienne and Kenneth MacMillan's Manon.

Soprano Susanna Phillips, a star of New York's Metropolitan and Chicago's Lyric Opera stages, will headline a concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, in Anderson Chapel at North Park University, 5149 N. Spaulding Ave., Chicago, to benefit the spring 2014 Bach Week Festival in Evanston and Chicago.

The Castle in the Air (Le 66!) by Jacques Offenbach in the Amsterdam Marionette Theatre.

Ab dem 13. September um 16 Uhr zeigt das Ensemble des Papageno Musiktheaters im Nachmittagsprogramm wieder das musikalische Hexenspektakel „Die kleine Hexe". Hans-Dieter Maienschein inszeniert den Kinderbuchklassiker des im Februar 2013 verstorbenen Otfried Preußler mit Musik von Peter Tschaikowsky, Carl Orff und Jacques Offenbach. Die kleine Hexe erlebt mit ihrem Raben Abraxas in der 90-minutigen Buhnenfassung nicht nur eine aufregende Walpurgisnacht, sondern verzaubert die Herzen der Kinder und Erwachsenen. Das von Barbel Jahn und Ulla Hartmann (Berlin) ausgestattete Buhnenbilderbuch ist geeignet fur Kinder ab funf Jahren. Karten sind erhaltlich uber die Ticket Hotline 069 - 13 40 400 und die Vorverkaufsstellen der Frankfurt Ticket RheinMain GmbH. Weitere Informationen im Internet: www.papageno-theater.de .

The Dallas Opera is happy to present three weekends of family-friendly programming guaranteed to introduce you and your loved ones to the big, beautiful world of opera. The Dallas Opera Educational/Family Series, part of The Perot Foundation Education and Community Outreach Programs, is presented by Texas Instruments and made possible with additional support from Lockheed Martin.

The Castle in the Air (Le 66!) by Jacques Offenbach in the Amsterdam Marionette Theatre.

As part of its 'SUMMERTIME CLASSICS' series, the New York Philharmonic presented Holst's 'THE PLANETS - AN HD ODYSSEY' at Avery Fisher Hall

The New York Philharmonic will present its tenth season of Summertime Classics, today, July 3-7, 2013, featuring five themed concerts with Bramwell Tovey, who has been the host and conductor of the series since its founding in 2004.

New York City Opera's production of Jacques Offenbach's LA PERICHOLE feels right at home at City Center, home of the 'Encores!' series, which reintroduces audiences to lesser known Broadway musicals that failed or went out of fashion despite wonderful scores. PERICHOLE doesn't have a care in the world in Christopher Alden's boisterous vision. It's a cheerful reminder of a musical style that has unjustifiably fallen by the wayside.

A human ball of silver glitter hanging from a cord is lowered above what looks like a bungalow-sized muffin top.  (It's supposed to represent a turtle shell.)  Before the glitter ball makes its landing the cover is removed to reveal what looks like a tribe of humanish amphibians bouncing on trampolines and twirling on the muffin/turtle's frame.  Shortly after, a sleazy-looking clown in a tropical shirt tosses a condom to a woman in the front row and says, 'Call me!'  Yes, dear readers, Cirque du Soleil is back in town.