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 ...
Benjamin Bernheim performs the title role of the tormented poet for Offenbach’s final work. Hoffmann’s trio of lovers are sung by Erin Morley as the mechanical doll Olympia, Pretty Yende as the ...
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 ...
Offenbach's fantastical final work, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), opens the Metropolitan Opera's 2024–25 Live in HD season on Saturday, October 5, at 1PM ET. French tenor Benjamin ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The opening of a new season at the Metropolitan Opera marks the pinnacle of gala time in New York, with its red ...
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The world-renowned tenor plays the visionary writer ETA Hoffman in Jacques Offenbach's extravagent opera which blurs the lines between the real and the imaginary. It’s a fantastical odyssey, a tale in ...
Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, May 10 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).