Opera: Les Contes d’Hoffmann
From Opéra de Paris: Les Contes d'Hoffmann By the time he came to tackle the composition of Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Offenbach’s opus already included more than a hundred operas. Left unfinished when he died during rehearsals in October 1880, his last work combines fantasy, gravity and humour in an unexpectedly innovative synthesis of opera buffa,.... Read More