Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Opéra fantastique in five acts by Jacques Offenbach
Marguerre-Saal
[recommended for ages 15 and up]
Can true art only come of suffering?
In his attempt to come to terms with his unhappy love for the singer Stella, the poet Hoffmann sought to bring it to life in three fantastic tales about three women: Olympia – the soulless automaton –, Antonia – the soulful singer who has to give her life for art – and the courtesan Giulietta, who wagers his love. He enters a (fictional) relationship with each of these women in order to relive his failure again and again.
Jacques Offenbach, the father of the operetta, created a memorial to the poet E. T. A. Hoffmann with his final work for the stage. He was never able to reveal it to the public himself. The work was premiered in Paris, but not until 1881, four months after Offenbach had died, in a version completed by Ernest Guiraud.
This production is accompanied by a programme from the Arts & Education team.
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30.10.2022
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12.1.2023
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21.11.2022
18.12.2022
25.12.2022
12.1.2023
20.1.2023
On
30.10.2022
8.11.2022
21.11.2022
25.12.2022
20.1.2023
On
2.11.2022
11.11.2022
18.12.2022
12.1.2023
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30.10.2022
2.11.2022
8.11.2022
11.11.2022
21.11.2022
Listen to an introduction in German by Ulrike Schumann here.

Trailer by Siegersbuschfilm