Director Bartlett Sher achieves the distinction of having not one or two but three shows playing at Lincoln Center this season. In addition to his longrunning Broadway revival of “South Pacific,” the ...

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 ...

When I read the synopsis for the Skylight's "Tales of Hoffman," I said, "Well, that can't be right." But the woman sitting next to me assured me that a poet falling in love with a mechanical doll and ...

In addition to its charms for an audience, Offenbach's opera "The Tales of Hoffmann" maintains a particular allure for artists of all kinds, for one obvious reason. It's all about them. A three-part ...

The Tales of Hoffmann, conducted by David Stern, will be presented by the Palm Beach Opera. Stern, recently appointed Music Director after a decade as Chief Conductor, is recognized for his ability to ...

TALES OF HOFFMANN (1951) screens Friday September 1st through Sunday September 3rd at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts each evening at 7:30pm. This a film ...

It appears the hero of "Tales of Hoffmann" has a type. He falls hopelessly in love with, successively, a doll, a courtesan and a singer who look exactly the same. A clever and successful casting ...

We’re lucky to have English Touring Opera. When it comes to repertoire they’re the UK’s boldest company by miles. Recent seasons have featured neglected Handel, forgotten Donizetti, rare Britten (Paul ...

When Plácido Domingo walked on stage before conducting Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night, he got what he always gets: an excited ovation. Who’s not ...

Australian director and wild man on the piano Barrie Kosky has returned to a formula practiced by the likes of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Wright & Forrest, reworking a famous opera for contemporary ...

There’s a mechanical doll. Also a singer, a seductress and a woman protected by her father. And Hoffman loves them all. Billed as a mixture of “steampunk, the supernatural and romantic decadence,” ...