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    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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    Staatsoper Hamburg in the opening production of their 2021/22 season, Les contes d’Hoffmann, in which he played the title role. He performed recitals at the...
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    recitatives used for Bizet's opera Carmen and for Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann). Guiraud was born in New Orleans, Louisiana...
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    French repertoire, such as Léïla in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, Antonia in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, the title role of Massenet's Manon, Marguerite...
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    wrote two opéras, Die Rheinnixen and his unfinished masterpiece Les contes d'Hoffmann. In his early career he was an internationally celebrated cello...
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    Manon; Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story; Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann; The European Commission of the EU granted Grigolo and Romano Musumarra...
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    preparing restored versions of Bizet's Carmen in 1964 and Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann in 1976. The former was heavily criticized for lack of editorial...
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    She then made her role and house debut as Antonia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Opéra de Paris. Ms. Willis-Sørensen returned to the Wiener Staatsoper...
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    wished passionately to live long enough to complete the opera, Les contes d'Hoffmann ("The Tales of Hoffmann"). He was heard saying to Kleinzach, his...
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    Donizetti's La fille du régiment, the three heroines in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Violetta in Verdi's...
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  • Faust and to the Liceu, Barcelona, in the title role of Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, among many other engagements both in concerts and staged operas...
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    Theatre prize Der Faust for all four female characters in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Chevalier studied at the Northwestern...
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    Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge. Decca 448 973-2 Jacques Offenbach Les contes d'Hoffmann—Joan Sutherland (Stella\Olympia\Antonia\Giulietta), Plácido Domingo...
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    le plaisir des " Indes galantes " se fait attendre". Le Monde. Dahan, Eric (22 March 2000). "Opera. Robert Carsen met en scène les "Contes d'Hoffmann"...
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    had closed in 1872) and premiered new pieces, such as Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (1881); Delibes' Lakmé (1883); Massenet's Manon (1884), Esclarmonde...
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  • – The Groom Love Has Flown, Never Returning (Music: Offenbach, Les contes d'Hoffmann) – Christine All of My Dreams Faded Suddenly – (Music: Dvořák, Rusalka)...
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    debut as Norma at the Royal Opera House, where she sang Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann in November of the same year. In June 2017 she made her debut at...
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  • Official website Kathleen Kim on Facebook Profile at HarrisonParrott The "Doll Song" (Les oiseaux dans la charmille) on YouTube, from Les contes d'Hoffmann...
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    Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, the title role of Bizet's Carmen, Hansel in Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel, and Urbain in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots....
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    such as Manon, Werther, and Thaïs. Jacques Offenbach, who composed Les Contes d'Hoffmann, established himself as the master of French opera-comique of the...
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    Gilda in Rigoletto, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Morley's breakthrough career moment came when she stepped in at...
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  • eclipsed by Richard Strauss's treatment of the same subject. 1881 Les contes d'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach). Offenbach's attempt at writing a more serious...
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  • celebrated recordings, the Postillon's Song ("Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire") from Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam. Rosvaenge appeared in a wide spectrum...
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    Le timbre d'argent (libretto written in 1864, first performed in 1877), Gounod's Faust (1859), Roméo et Juliette (1867), and Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann...
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    trovatore, Don Carlos), Bellini (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Offenbach (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) and Donizetti (Il Campanello, Maria Stuarda). She starred in the...
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    d'Avignon 1993: Les Drôles (Élizabeth Mazev) 1999: Der Freischütz (Carl Maria von Weber), Opéra de Nancy 2001: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach)...
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    José in Carmen; Samson in Samson and Delilah; Énée in Les Troyens; Hoffmann in Les Contes d'Hoffmann); and German (Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Siegmund in Die...
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  • studio recordings available in audio CD, VHS and DVD. Recordings of Les Contes d'Hoffmann on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk ArkivMusic. Retrieved 27 July...
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    In 2008, she also directed her first operette les contes d'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann) at the Vaux le Vicomte castle, the castle which inspired king...
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    the Netherlands Opera, where she made her debut as Giulietta in Les contes d'Hoffmann. In 1949, Brouwenstijn made her debut at the Holland Festival as...
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