Nevertheless, it is not ridiculous to think that such a unique character as Hoffmann might have a parrot as a best friend. Parrots do not have thoughts of their own, but merely imitate those they hear, and this could be making a point in its own right. Hof...
Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann has a reputation for being an unwieldy, overblown work, but Damiano Michieletto’s new staging, that arrives in Bow Street via Opera Australia and La Fenice, Venice, miraculously turns the opera into something far more tightly-knit ...
The Tales of Hoffmann, opera by German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach, with a French libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier, the latter of whom was a coauthor of the play of the same name, from which the opera was derived. The opera premiered in Paris on February 10, 1881...