Les Contes d’Hoffmann | News Music & Opera https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/tag/les-contes-dhoffmann-en Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:53:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Hoffmann is telling his tales at Comique! https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/hoffmann-is-telling-his-tales-at-comique Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:42:21 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=16751 After the usual summer break, which is always too long for music lovers, the 2025/2026 season at the Opéra-Comique opens on 25 September 2025 with Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), Jacques Offenbach‘s only opera and absolute masterpiece. Lotte de Beer‘s production comes from Strasbourg, where it premiered last January at the Opéra national […]

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]]> After the usual summer break, which is always too long for music lovers, the 2025/2026 season at the Opéra-Comique opens on 25 September 2025 with Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), Jacques Offenbach‘s only opera and absolute masterpiece. Lotte de Beer‘s production comes from Strasbourg, where it premiered last January at the Opéra national du Rhin.

Offenbach, the undisputed master of opéra bouffe during the Second Empire, reveals a whole new side to his artistic genius in this work. Based on the fantastical short stories of E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Tales of Hoffmann is an opera that brings together several tales about the unhappy loves of the writer, an iconic figure of European Romanticism. Unfortunately, Offenbach died before seeing his work performed on stage at the Opéra-Comique. Several revisions and additions that have been made to the work are both a real headache for musicologists and a veritable playground. There are several versions of The Tales that the German director explores.

This new production marks the return of an essential masterpiece to the Opéra-Comique repertoire. A regular at the institution, tenor Michael Spyres plays Hoffmann, opposite his Muse, played by Héloïse Mas. Conducting, Pierre Dumoussaud confirms his status as a leading interpreter of the Offenbach repertoire. Performances will run from 25 September to 5 October 2025 and are set to be one of the highlights of the opera season.

 

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Les Contes d’Hoffmann – c – Klara Back – Opera National du Rhin janvier 2025

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]]> Benjamin Bernheim’s Broken Dreams in New York https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/benjamin-bernheims Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:00:28 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=14883 After shining in this same role at the Paris Opera, French tenor Benjamin Bernheim is preparing to conquer America as Hoffmann, the hero with broken dreams. Offenbach’s famous and unique opera, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, returns to the Metropolitan Opera starting September 24, 2024, as the season opener (notably with Pretty Yende as Olympia). But Parisian […]

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]]> After shining in this same role at the Paris Opera, French tenor Benjamin Bernheim is preparing to conquer America as Hoffmann, the hero with broken dreams. Offenbach’s famous and unique opera, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, returns to the Metropolitan Opera starting September 24, 2024, as the season opener (notably with Pretty Yende as Olympia). But Parisian admirers of the tenor can rest assured, he is announced for a recital at the Palais Garnier on November 24, 2024. The announced program is the same as the one recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and which has just been released.

Discover Benjamin Bernheim at the Metropolitan Opera

Benjamin Bernheim © Deutsche Grammophon Universal Music

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