The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the ...

BERLIN — The composer Jacques Offenbach captured the streets of mid-19th-century Paris like no other. But while he produced about 130 scores for the stage, his profile is often reduced to a spirited ...

If there was one legend sure to source its fair share of opera, it had to be the tale of Orpheus, the Greek hero who could charm the birds out of the trees with his music. Monteverdi, Telemann, and ...

Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is a comic opera. Its score was composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French text written by Ludovic Halévy and ...

Opening Friday, “My Night at Jacques (An Offenbach Folly)” features one-act operettas by the irrepressible Jacques Offenbach, creator of such ebullient operettas as “Orpheus in the Underworld” and “La ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Tales of Hoffmann,” Jacques Offenbach’s bounteously imaginative mingling of reality and fantasy, stands as one of the opera world’s most peculiar and ...

Presented at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris, Jacques Offenbach’s comic opera Belle Lurette is making a vibrant comeback in a faithful new staging by Les Tréteaux Lyriques, running from January 9 to ...

In opera, death and destruction are common affairs. But they usually happen in operas, not to operas. Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, which the Orlando Opera Company will raise the curtain ...

The poet E.T.A. Hoffmann is in love with Stella, a renowned opera singer: Lindorf, a rich counsellor, also loves her and has intercepted a note she has written to Hoffmann. Lindorf is confident he ...

The Tales of Hoffmann, presented by the Florida Grand Opera and opening at the Arsht Center Saturday night, is a 19th century, three-act opera by German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach. And, as ...

What: Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann,” part of the 2014-15 “Met Opera: Live in HD” broadcast season Where: The Finkel Auditorium at the Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge campus, 107 ...