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The opera is based on a play by the writers Jules Barbier, who wrote the opera's libretto, and Michel Carre. The play takes the real life German poet, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and makes him a character in some of his own, fanciful stories. Offenbach's drama follows the same scheme, placing the title character into three, fanciful stories of failed love.
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Today Opera Easy zeroes in on one of the most fascinating and intriguing operas in all of operatic history," says host Natalie Choquette. "The composer of today's featured work was born in Germany in 1819 but became a naturalized Frenchman. He was called the King of the Operetta, having written over 90 popular and hilarious operettas for the Parisian stage during the Second Republic. Yet Jacques Offenbach's dream was to write an opera. When the opera...
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Sparkling with creativity, Stefan Herheim's new staging of Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Bregenz Festival stars Kerstin Avemo, Mandy Fredrich, Rachel Frenkel, Daniel Johansson, and Michael Volle. It was received by an enthusiastic audience with standing ovation and frenetic applause.
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