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 ...

French composer Jacques Offenbach was famous for his operettas, bubbly, lighthearted musicals that satirized the conventions of the day. But he wanted to write serious opera, and the result was “Tales ...

Opera in the Heights launches its 15th season in grand style with its spirited rendition of Jacques Offenbach's masterpiece The Tales of Hoffmann. The French operetta master's bold bid for recognition ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...