The neglect of Suppé this year is perhaps not that surprising (though he, not Johann Strauss II, started Viennese operetta), because interest in him has for decades been confined to his overtures. But ...

There was no lack of erotic or political scandal to liven up the creation of this work, guaranteeing it immediate and unfailing success. Get carried away by music that is always new and inventive, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Tales of Hoffmann,” Jacques Offenbach’s bounteously imaginative mingling of reality and fantasy, stands as one of the opera world’s most peculiar and ...

Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann with set designs by William Dudley Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

A scene from the Prologue of Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" with Ana Netrebko as Stella. (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) Joseph Calleja as Hoffmann and Ekaterina Gubanova as Giulietta in ...

The Met's new production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, premieres on December 3. Joseph Calleja sings ...

The Greek National Opera partners with one of the most important and historic opera houses in Europe, the Opéra Comique in Paris, for an adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's Le Voyage dans la Lune, ...

Mirella Freni passed away on February 9th 2020. She was 84 years old. Freni was an Italian operatic soprano who had a career of 50 years and appeared at major international opera houses. She received ...