The eponymous stories in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann each feature an inamorata from the German writer’s life. In Damiano Michieletto’s new production at the Royal Opera House they chart a ...

controlled the dynamics and dramatic ebbs and flows of the score for The Tales of Hoffmann very effectively with the band ...

But when it comes to matters of the heart, nothing is as it seems. Particularly when the devil himself is involved… The opera runs for 245 minutes and includes two intervals. Tickets are £18 for ...

A quartet of ripe, naked maidens prancing around a preoccupied faun was for 24 years the despair of Victorian moralists and the delight of the clubmen who crowded Manhattan’s Hoffman House bar.

The Jacques Offenbach fantasy opera has been transformed to the screen with great imagination and taste, with an unusual amount of inventiveness and effects, for a lush, resplendent production ...

Opera on 3 Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann with set designs by William Dudley Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

The young poet Hoffmann, accompanied by Nicklausse, his alter ego and confidant, is in a tavern next to the theatre where Mozart's Don Giovanni is being performed. During the opera's intermission ...

This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (and the rest of "The Archers") work their ...

Particularly when the devil himself is involved… The opera runs for 245 minutes and includes two intervals. Tickets are £18 for adults and £17 for concessions and they are available by ...