Les contes d’Hoffmann - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Les contes d’Hoffmann
Opera in three acts, with prologue and epilogue, in French, with Hungarian and English surtitles
What makes E. T. A. Hoffmann's stories so memorable is the spectacular combination of unbridled imagination and real social situations. In his unfinished final work Offenbach deviates from the style of his hilarious satirical operettas, which are full of the witty and derisive social criticism of his time. Of course, this work is not without humor either, but the poet's romantic adventures are dominated by dark, sometimes fateful nuances of color. In his search for the absolute ideal of femininity, Hoffmann is accompanied by four evil characters and brings him into misery, which force him to face death again and again even in an amorous intoxication. With these stories, which consist of both the real and a hair-raising imagination, the composer leads his audience into a universe in which the line between dream and reality is slightly blurred.
Subject to changes.
What makes E. T. A. Hoffmann's stories so memorable is the spectacular combination of unbridled imagination and real social situations. In his unfinished final work Offenbach deviates from the style of his hilarious satirical operettas, which are full of the witty and derisive social criticism of his time. Of course, this work is not without humor either, but the poet's romantic adventures are dominated by dark, sometimes fateful nuances of color. In his search for the absolute ideal of femininity, Hoffmann is accompanied by four evil characters and brings him into misery, which force him to face death again and again even in an amorous intoxication. With these stories, which consist of both the real and a hair-raising imagination, the composer leads his audience into a universe in which the line between dream and reality is slightly blurred.
Subject to changes.
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