When Jacques Offenbach began writing The Tales of Hoffmann, in 1877, he hoped the opera would boost his reputation to a whole new level. It did exactly that — but unfortunately, the composer never ...

“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 wonderful masterpieces. The opera’s unwieldy ...

Director Bartlett Sher achieves the distinction of having not one or two but three shows playing at Lincoln Center this season. In addition to his longrunning Broadway revival of “South Pacific,” the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, May 10 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

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Offenbach, who also launched avant-garde innovations in stagecraft and design, played a leading role in cultural change, not only in music but also in literature, art, and politics, as he offered an ...