Hoffmanns Erzählungen (2011)
2h 48m
Running Time
October 30, 2011Release Date
Hoffmanns Erzählungen (2011)
2h 48m
Running Time
October 30, 2011Release Date
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Plot.
Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach that combines three short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann into a haunting whole: a melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer. One of the questions this opera poses for any director is how to link the 'tales' of Hoffmann's three lost loves together and knit them satisfactorily into the Prologue and Epilogue. In this production, Richard Jones solves the puzzle by turning it into an autobiographical journey which ends with a grand meet-up of all the characters Hoffmann has encountered: for once, Hoffmann is not presented as a rollicking kind of drunken story-spinner, but rather a sad-eyed, sobered-up depressive, who reaches for the bottle only because his disastrous love life has gone wrong yet again.
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Cast & Crew.
Rolando Villazón
Hoffmann
Diana Damrau
Olympia / Giulietta / Antonia / Stella
John Relyea
Lindorff / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto
Kevin Conners
Cochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz
Angela Brower
Nicklausse / La Muse
Ulrich Reß
Spalanzani
Dean Power
Nathanaël
Tim Kuypers
Hermann
Christian Rieger
Schlémil
Andrew Owens
Wilhelm
Christoph Stephinger
Crespel / Luther
Jacques Offenbach
Original Music Composer
Michael Beyer
Director
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Original Story
Jules Barbier
Writer
Constantinos Carydis
Music Director
Richard Jones
Production Design
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Details.
This Movie Is About.
poet
opera live performance
magic
doll
19th century
automaton
fake doctor
muse
nuremberg