2020 / AROP evening / Opera

28 Jan.

Les Contes D'hoffmann

Opéra Bastille

19h30

Duration

3h20

Dress Cocktail attire

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1st part

19h30

Intermission cocktail

20h40

2nd part

21h00

Intermission cocktail

21h50

3rd part

22h10

End of the performance

22h50

Could there be a greater homage to the inventor of magic realism in literature than to make him the principal character of an opera in which all resemblance to reality is abolished in favour of an imaginary world with its own rules? In this work by Offenbach, Hoffmann, an ill-fated poet and composer, evokes his past love affairs and leads us through a universe in which dream and reality intermingle. Director Robert Carsen plays masterfully with this play within a play and his spectacular mise en abyme takes us behind the scenes of opera.

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Production de 1982 - Robert Carsen