2023 / AROP evening / Opera

06 Dec.

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Opéra Bastille

19h30

Duration

3h30

Dress Cocktail attire

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1st part

19h30

Intermission cocktail

20h45

2nd part

21h05

Intermission cocktail

22h00

3rd part

22h20

End of the performance

23h00

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.

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Production de 1982 - Robert Carsen