This aria performed by the ‘doll’ Olympia in Offenbach’s opera Les Contes d’Hoffmann is arguably the most difficult piece ever written for soprano. Offenbach’s opera Les Contes d’Hoffmann is set in a ...
What: Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann,” part of the 2014-15 “Met Opera: Live in HD” broadcast season Where: The Finkel Auditorium at the Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge campus, 107 ...
In her role debut, American soprano Erin Morley plays the mechanical doll Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera. Morley’s vivid ballerina outfit and all costumes were ...
When Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann was first performed in Paris in 1881, the composer had been dead for three months, so it is perhaps hardly surprising that the work was seen as ...
A scene from the Prologue of Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" with Ana Netrebko as Stella. (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) Joseph Calleja as Hoffmann and Ekaterina Gubanova as Giulietta in ...