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 ...

Though it featured some other fine portrayals, this season’s Hoffmann was compromised by brusquely brisk conducting by Marco Armiliato who was conspicuously out of his usual Verdi-Puccini comfort zone ...

At center, from left: Kang Wang, Kathryn Lewek and Emily Fons, along with the Palm Beach Opera Chorus, in a scene from Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann," at Palm Beach Opera. The final performance ...

French tenor Benjamin Bernheim, who recently performed at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics to millions of viewers, makes his Met role debut as the title character and leads a cast making ...

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 ...

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 ...

What: Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann,” part of the 2014-15 “Met Opera: Live in HD” broadcast season Where: The Finkel Auditorium at the Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge campus, 107 ...

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 ...