The Russian mezzo is a graduate of the young artists program of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, where she made her debut in 2002. She made her Paris Opera debut as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde and ...

A bittersweet story of love wasted and lost, the Jacques Offenbach opera “The Tales of Hoffmann” has many a party scene, from its carousing opening scene in a tavern, to an elegant ball to a raucous ...

UNL Opera presented Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann” Friday evening at the Kimball Recital Hall. The opera tells the story of the poet Hoffmann’s three different loves. UNL Opera director ...

If you want to learn why opera fans love opera so much, try sitting in a small space and hearing a trained opera singer in full cry: The visceral power is hard to resist. The greater Washington area ...

Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann returns to the Met Opera on September 26 with tenor Vittorio Grigolo reprising the title role of the tortured poet. Johannes Debus conducts all performances featuring ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A new production of the Tales of Hoffmann at Geneva's Grand Theater creates a mix of art, sex and death in an unusually nightmarish and nihilistic reading of Jacques Offenbach's ...

The soprano Diana Damrau and the bass-baritone Nicolas Testé were scheduled to begin a six-performance run last Saturday of Los Angeles Opera’s production of Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann ...

When Plácido Domingo walked on stage before conducting Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night, he got what he always gets: an excited ovation. Who’s not ...

“The Tales of Hoffmann,” Jacques Offenbach’s bounteously imaginative mingling of reality and fantasy, stands as one of the opera world’s most peculiar and wonderful masterpieces. The opera’s unwieldy ...

A lovesick poet, a goddess disguised as a man and a slew of drunken students walk into a tavern. So begins Los Angeles Opera’s current production of Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann,” the ...

Oscar-winning director's staging of "The Tales of Hoffmann" sells out in Austria. By Tina Daunt William Friedkin The Tales of Hoffman - H 2012 VIENNA– Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi agreed on ...