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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    in Les Troyens, the four Damons in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, roles in Tosca, Don Quixote, Louise, Pelléas et Mélisande, La Bohème, and Mathis in Le Juif...
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  • auf Naxos, and bowed at the Metropolitan Opera as Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in 1987, a performance which also marked the company debut of conductor...
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    Whittington, Le Chat du diable (1893). The solo for Le docteur Miracle "Eh! oui, je vous entends !" in the Antonia act of Les Contes d'Hoffmann originated...
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  • affiliation with Cincinnati Opera with his debut as Hoffmann in Les contes d'Hoffmann. He went on to sing Roméo in Roméo et Juliette in 1989 and 1994...
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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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    as Bertram in the historic revival in Paris of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable. Ramey has sung in Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro...
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  • Vienna, and Paris. Her discography includes Rigoletto (1993), Les contes d'Hoffmann (as Antonia, with Roberto Alagna, conducted by Kent Nagano, 1994–96)...
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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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    been working when he could on a piece based on a stage play, Les contes fantastiques d'Hoffmann, by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. Offenbach had suffered...
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  • Martinů, 1937 Le comte Ory, Rossini, 1828 La Conquista, Ferrero, 2005 Les contes d'Hoffmann, Offenbach, 1881 Der Corregidor, Wolf, 1896 Così fan tutte, Mozart...
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  • Hadlock, Heather (2000). Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes D'Hoffmann. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691058023. Dibbern, Mary (2002)...
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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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    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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  • Carydis conducted an acclaimed new staging in 2011 of Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann starring Diana Damrau and Rolando Villazón. This was streamed over...
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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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    Sesto in Giulio Cesare, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (opposite Michael Devlin), Nicklausse in Les contes d'Hoffmann (with Sills and Norman Treigle), Dorabella...
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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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    included La bohème, La traviata, Faust, Manon, Andrea Chénier, Thaïs, Les contes d'Hoffmann (as the courtesan Giulietta), Rigoletto, Mefistofele (as both Margarita...
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    adaptation) (Donizetti) Fritz, L'amico Fritz (Mascagni) Hoffmann, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) Mario Cavaradossi, Tosca (Puccini) Macduff, Macbeth...
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  • "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (Barcarolle) from Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann. Margaret received mostly positive reviews from critics. The film...
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