Organization

Stage director

Balázs Kovalik

Conductor

Yannis Pouspourikas

Costume designer

Sebastian Ellrich

Set designer

Hermann Feuchtner

Dramaturge

Larissa Wieczorek

Singer

Tenor

Brett Sprague

Hoffmann

Soprano

Danae Kontora

Olympia

Daniela Gerstenmeyer

Antonia

Jessica Rose Cambio

Juliet

Mezzo-soprano

Florence Losseau

Nicklausse

Bass-baritone

Máté Sólyom-Nagy

Lindorf

Coppelius

Miracle

Dapertutto

Julian Freibott

Spalanzani

Jörg Rathmann

Nathaniel

Cochineal

Frantz

Pitichinaccio

Baritone

Siyabulela Ntlale

Schlemil

William

Bass

Kakhaber Shavidze

Crespel

Luther

Lighting designer

Thomas Spangenberg

Alexandra Kadurina

La Muse

Theater Erfurt

French

Les contes d'Hoffmann -  (The Tales of Hoffmann)

Erfurt

Germany

Großes Haus

Les contes d'Hoffmann Offenbach

Public

The Tales of Hoffmann

Approved

Jacques OffenbachLes Contes d’HoffmannOpéra-fantastique in fünf AktenLibretto von Jules Barbier nach dem Schauspiel von Jules Barbier und Michel CarréUrauffü...

ETA Hoffmann was not only a civil servant and a lawyer, but above all a dazzling artistic personality who regularly offended with her strong convictions and repeatedly had to defend himself against the politics that set limits to his artistic work.

In Offenbach's opera, the writer, musician and draftsman becomes the anti-hero of his own stories: In Les Contes d'Hoffmann , the titular hero is manipulated, artistic illusions under the name Olympia are presented to him and destroyed. Singers, including Hoffmann's lover Antonia, have to die if they pursue their art. And finally the poet finds himself in a field in which people sell themselves and their ideals - he loses his ability to reflect on himself.

Jacques Offenbach's Opéra fantastique is the last and the only serious opera by the "inventor" of French operetta. In a kaleidoscope-like manner, he interweaves social criticism, French sentiment, German romanticism, parodistic jokes and musical finesse into narratives about the artist's existence: They address the abysses, doubts, great ideas and crises of a bohemian who struggles for the right to exist, artistic freedom, influence, recognition and love got to.

English

The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach, From (2022/2022), Directed by Balázs Kovalik,, Conductor Yannis Pouspourikas, Theater Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

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