Les Contes d' Hoffmann: Paris National Opera
About the Event
Jacques Offenbach's last work, 'Les Contes d'Hoffmann', is both bizarre and visionary, sensual and morbid. Pretty Yende sings Olympia in Robert Carsen's inventive staging at the Bastille Opera in Paris.
The watching, gentle muse, Hoffmann's haunted inebriation, Olympia's icy coloratura, Antonia's deathly song, Giulietta's Baudelairian sensuality: they all make 'Tales of Hoffmann' the composer's absolute masterpiece, just as he had hoped.
Sung in French, with French and English surtitles.
Cast / Production
Hoffmann: Benjamin Bernheim (30 Nov. 18 Dec.)
Dmitry Korchak (21 27 Dec)
Olympia: Pretty Yende
Giulietta: Antoinette Dennefeld
Antonia: Rachel Willis‐Sorensen
Lindorf, Coppélius, Dapertutto, Miracle: Christian Van Horn
La muse, Nicklausse: Angela Brower
Andrès, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio, Frantz: Leonardo Cortellazzi
Spalanzani: Christophe Mortagne
Nathanaël: Cyrille Lovighi
Hermann: Christian Rodrigue Moungoungou
Crespel, Maître Luther: Vincent Le Texier
La Voix de la mère d’Antonia: Sylvie Brunet‑Grupposo
Schlemil: Alejandro Baliñas Vieites
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
