Hoffmanns Erzählungen

Dress rehearsal

Opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach

Libretto von Jules Barbier, Spielfassung und Neufassung der Dialoge von Peter te Nuyl

In German and French language with German and English surtitles

The poet Hoffmann thinking of his beloved Stella, struggles with a writer’s block. His Muse, in disguise, is determined to steer Hoffmann away from his unhappy love and back to art. Hoffmann begins recounting the stories of three women he once loved: Olympia, Antonia, and Giulietta. In her staging, director Lotte de Beer creates a dialogue between Hoffmann and the Muse, a confrontation between art and the artist. Jacques Offenbach’s name remains synonymous with operetta, but at the end of his life, he worked on his most ambitious masterpiece: the fantastic opera Les contes d’Hoffmann.

Co-production with the Opéra National du Rhin, the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique and the Opéra de Reims.