For a composer perhaps known best for his contribution to the cancan, it is refreshing to realize that Jacques Offenbach’s influence extends to more significant genres. Connecticut Opera helped prove ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNL Opera presented Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann” Friday evening at the Kimball Recital Hall. The opera tells the story of the poet Hoffmann’s three different loves. UNL Opera director ...

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 ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A new production of the Tales of Hoffmann at Geneva's Grand Theater creates a mix of art, sex and death in an unusually nightmarish and nihilistic reading of Jacques Offenbach's ...

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 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 ...

The soprano Diana Damrau and the bass-baritone Nicolas Testé were scheduled to begin a six-performance run last Saturday of Los Angeles Opera’s production of Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann ...

The Russian mezzo is a graduate of the young artists program of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, where she made her debut in 2002. She made her Paris Opera debut as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde and ...