Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Production de 1982 - Robert Carsen

• Conductor

  Eun Sun Kim; Alessandro Di Stefano

• Music

  Jacques Offenbach
  (1819-1880)

• Libretto

  Jules Barbier

• Director

  Robert Carsen

• Set design and Costume design

  Michael Levine

• Lighting design

  Jean Kalman

• Choreography

  Philippe Giraudeau

• Dramaturgy

  Ian Burton

In a tavern, the poet Hoffmann, who has just heard the diva Stella sing, tells the story of the three women he has loved: Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta, three loves thwarted by an evil spirit, Lindorf. Will his passion for Stella suffer the same fate? With this fantastic opera, drawing on the imagination of the writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, Jacques Offenbach sought to prove that he was more than a composer of lightweight works. Even though it remained unfinished after his death in 1880, the score constitutes a magnificent swan song and abounds with famous passages such as the Barcarolle and the Doll Song. Robert Carsen, always fond of portraying theatre within theatre, plunges the audience into the world of an opera house, from the stage to the wings, as his dizzying mise en abyme questions the notions of the anti-hero and the female ideal.

Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
France musique will broadcast Les Contes d'Hoffmann on Saturday January 20 in Judith Chaine's Samedi à l'Opéra.

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Production de 1982 - Robert Carsen

• Hoffmann

  Benjamin Bernheim

• Olympia

  Pretty Yende

• Giulietta

  Antoinette Dennefeld

• Antonia

  Rachel Willis-Sorensen

• Lindorf, Coppélius, Dapertutto, Miracle

  Christian Van Horn

• La muse, Nicklausse

  Angela Brower

• Andrès, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio, Frantz

  Leonardo Cortellazzi

• Spalanzani

  Christophe Mortagne

• Nathanaël

  Cyrille Lovighi

• Hermann

  Christian Rodrigue Moungoungou

• Crespel, Maître Luther

  Vincent Le Texier

• La Voix de la mère d’Antonia

  Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo

• Schlemil

  Alejandro Baliñas Vieites