The comic opera Belle Lurette by Jacques Offenbach is set to be performed at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell in Paris, in ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
As the title character in Jacques Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” peers at a mechanical doll through special fantasy-granting glasses, the toy becomes far more than the sum of her mannequin parts ...
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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 ...
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 ...