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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. French tenor Benjamin Bernheim, who recently performed at the closing ceremony of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Offenbach's fantastical final work, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It’s been more than a year now since I’ve heard live opera in the theater (Wozzeck at the Met) and in that time I have become frankly burnt out by opera on video. I miss the enveloping audience, the ...

Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, May 10 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...