It almost collapsed — and yet Friday’s opening night of Opera Company of Middlebury’s production of Jacques Offenbach’s “Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld),” to say the least, was ...

The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the ...

The poet E.T.A. Hoffmann is in love with Stella, a renowned opera singer: Lindorf, a rich counsellor, also loves her and has intercepted a note she has written to Hoffmann. Lindorf is confident he ...

Read the short stories? Seen the play? Now experience the opera. That’s how it might have been for nineteenth-century Parisians and Les Contes d’Hoffmann, which Offenbach himself had seen as a play at ...

Given the continuing popularity of Jacques Offenbach's final opera, nobody is ever sure exactly what might go into any specific performance. Many hands got to work on "Tales of Hoffmann" while ...

Offenbach, who also launched avant-garde innovations in stagecraft and design, played a leading role in cultural change, not only in music but also in literature, art, and politics, as he offered an ...

Opening Friday, “My Night at Jacques (An Offenbach Folly)” features one-act operettas by the irrepressible Jacques Offenbach, creator of such ebullient operettas as “Orpheus in the Underworld” and “La ...