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 ...

The Greek National Opera partners with one of the most important and historic opera houses in Europe, the Opéra Comique in Paris, for an adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's Le Voyage dans la Lune, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “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 ...

Admired yet underestimated: that was the fate of German-French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach, who died 140 ago. Here's a look back at his work. Dancers holding up high the seams of their frilly ...

The poet E.T.A. Hoffmann is in love with Stella, a renowned opera singer: Lindorf, a rich counsellor, also loves her and has intercepted a note she has written to Hoffmann. Lindorf is confident he ...

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 ...

The talented French conductor Henri Pompidor, together with the choir and orchestra of Vietnam National Opera & Ballet, will bring to Hanoi audiences two concert nights honoring French composer ...