Organization

Conductor

Sébastien Rouland

Stage director

Krystian Lada

Video designer

Set designer

Marian Nketiah

Costume designer

Bente Rolandsdotter

Lighting designer

Alexandr Prowalinsky

Singer

Tenor

Tomas Lind

Hoffmann

Joachim Bäckström

Brian Michael Moore

Baritone

Schlemil

Spalanzani

Mezzo-soprano

Katarina Karnéus

La Muse

Nicklausse

Soprano

Kerstin Avemo

Olympia

Antonia

Juliet

Stella

Daniel Ralphsson

Les 4 Valets

Daniel Hayes

Herman

Katarina Giotas

Voice of Antonia's mother/The voice from the grave

Kristoffer Töyrä

William

Markus Pettersson

Nathaniel

Andrei Danilov

Bass-baritone

Andrew Foster-Williams

Lindorf

Coppelius

Miracle

Dapertutto

Andrès

Cochineal

Frantz

Pitichinaccio

Bass

Mats Persson

Crespel

Stefan Berkieta

Luther

GöteborgsOperan

Others

GöteborgsOperans Kör

Orchestra

Göteborg Opera Orchestra

French

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

Gothenburg

Sweden

Operan

Stora scenen

Les contes d'Hoffmann Offenbach

Public

The Tales of Hoffmann

Swedish

English

Approved

Hoffmann’s beloved Stella has left him. He drowns his sorrows in alcohol while reminiscing on the past. What led to this breakup? In his bereaved state, reality and fantasy merge together.

The real-life Hoffmann was primarily famous for his humorous fantasy stories. In Les contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), Hoffmann is the main character in three of his own stories.

Sublime soprano Kerstin Avemo portrays the three women that Hoffmann has loved and subsequently lost under bizarre circumstances. Each of the women – the perfect Olympia, the ambitious Antonia and the dramatic Giulietta – represent aspects of one and the same woman. The role of Hoffmann is sung by three tenors of different ages. Joachim Bäckström plays the middle-aged man looking back on his life.

In the hands of the young Polish director Krystian Lada, Les contes d’Hoffmann is easy for us to identify with despite its multi-layered, dreamlike and absurd elements. As with any couple, Hoffmann’s relationship with Stella requires constant decisions to be made in the best interests of the individuals, their relationship and their careers. French conductor Sébastien Rouland has conducted the opera several times, most recently in Tokyo.

Les contes d’Hoffmann is a love story where the burlesque meets the grotesque. It exists in a number of versions, and no one knows Offenbach’s real intentions for the work. He died a month before the opera opened, with the score in his hand, and never saw his life’s project become reality. This production is based on the latest version, from Offenbach’s original score.

The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach, From (2022/2023), Directed by Krystian Lada,, Conductor Sébastien Rouland, GöteborgsOperan, Gothenburg, Sweden

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