Les Contes d'Hoffman

Les Contes d'Hoffman

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  • Cast
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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 15, 2017

Runtime

2h 29m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

Original Title

Les Contes d'Hoffman

Production Companies

Opéra National de Paris

Director

Robert Carsen

Description

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta. Robert Carsen’s spectacular production highlights the melancholy genius of a man marked by life, with a coherence and dramatic sense remarkable for a work that leaves numerous questions unanswered. Under the baton of Philippe Jordan, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Ermonela Jaho, Kate Aldrich, Yann Beuron and Ramón Vargas and Stefano Secco in the main role, interpret the legendary airs of this work whose brilliant mystery will continue to dazzle opera houses for countless years to come.