The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier,...
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The Tales of Hoffmann is a 1951 British Technicolor comic opera film written, produced and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger...
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Powell and Pressburger (redirect from The Archers (film production))
of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). In 1981, Powell and Pressburger were recognised...
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the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of...
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Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour (redirect from "Night of stars, and night of love")
("Beautiful Night, Oh Night of Love" in French, often referred to as the "Barcarolle") is a piece from The Tales of Hoffmann (1881), Jacques Offenbach's...
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(disambiguation) E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann; 1776–1822), German writer, eponym of The Tales of Hoffmann Erich Hoffmann (1868–1959), German...
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This is a discography of the 1881 opera The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach. The list includes live and studio recordings available in audio CD...
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Jacques Offenbach (redirect from Ballets to the music of Jacques Offenbach)
operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre...
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Michael Powell (category People educated at The King's School, Canterbury)
Stairway to Heaven), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). His controversial 1960 film Peeping Tom, which was so vilified...
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Tales of Hoffmann (German: Hoffmanns Erzählungen) is a 1916 silent German drama film directed by Richard Oswald. An incomplete print is held in the collection...
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Emeric Pressburger (category Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom)
Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). Imre József Pressburger was born in Miskolc, in the Kingdom of Hungary, of Jewish heritage...
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Pamela Brown (actress) (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942), a memorable supporting role in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), and in the fantasy film-opera The Tales of Hoffmann...
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Robert Helpmann (category Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
Lucky), including The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann, as the Devil in a film version of Igor Stravinsky's ballet-drama The Soldier's Tale (L'Histoire du...
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Press. ISBN 978-0231161992. Retrieved 17 July 2012. The Tales of Hoffmann matte. The Tales of Hoffmann set. Wayne Haag (23 May 2017). "Alien Covenant – Cathedral"...
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The Tales of Hoffmann (German: Hoffmanns Erzählungen) is a 1923 Austrian silent film directed by and starring Max Neufeld. The film also features Karl...
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Tenor (redirect from List of famous tenors)
(Donizetti) Faust, Faust (Gounod) Hoffmann, The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) Lensky, Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) Martin, The Tender Land (Copland) Oronte...
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Hibla Gerzmava (category Prize-winners of the International Tchaikovsky Competition)
made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the parts of Stella and Antonia in Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, and in November–December 2011 she went...
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George A. Romero (category People from the Bronx)
The Film That Changed My Life, was the British film, The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), from the Powell and Pressburger team. It was the filmmaking, the fantasy...
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The Tales of Hoffmann; and Frédéric Chopin's Barcarolle in F-sharp major for solo piano. A barcarolle is characterized by a rhythm reminiscent of the...
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Moira Shearer (category Dancers of The Royal Ballet)
A Midsummer Night's Dream at the 1954 Edinburgh Festival. She worked again for Powell in the films The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) and Peeping Tom (1960)...
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Weber) (or soubrette) Annina, La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi) Antonia, The Tales of Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach) Clorinda, La Cenerentola (Gioachino Rossini)...
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directed her first operette les contes d'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann) at the Vaux le Vicomte castle, the castle which inspired king Louis XIV to build Versailles...
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the New York City Opera (NYCO), and became known worldwide when she sang and acted the part of Antonia in the 1951 British film The Tales of Hoffmann...
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Grethe Barrett Holby (category MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni)
Director to Nathaniel Merrill for The Tales of Hoffmann as well as to Peter Mark Shifter for the world premiere of Leonard Berstein's A Quiet Place (first...
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minor, op. 125, "Choral": Ode an die Freude Jacques Offenbach – The Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle Remo Giazotto – Adagio in G minor for Strings and Organ...
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Soprano (redirect from The supranos)
or higher, e.g. an interpolated A♭6 in the Doll Aria, "Les oiseaux dans la charmille", from The Tales of Hoffmann, e.g. by Rachele Gilmore in a 2009 performance...
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Natalie Dessay (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
portrayal of Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann in 1992, and then performing at leading stages, such as the Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera, and the Metropolitan...
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Coppélia (redirect from Waltz of the Golden Hours)
Hoffmann's sinister Herr Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker or the macabre Svengali-like travelling magician of the same name in Offenbach's The Tales of...
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Mezzo-soprano (category Pages using the Score extension)
Miranda, The Tempest (Thomas Adès) Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)* Nancy, Albert Herring (Britten) Nicklausse, The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)...
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Ludmilla Tchérina (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
Red Shoes, Les Rendezvous, The Tales of Hoffmann, Oh... Rosalinda!! and Luna de Miel. She also appeared in television. In the 1980s she turned to writing...
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