Vittorio Grigòlo in the lead role leads an excellent cast that includes Thomas Hampson, Sonya Yoncheva, Christine Rice and Sofia Fomina in Offenbach's fantastic operatic drama.
With the collaboration of Naxos
Opera in three acts with prologue and epilogue
Music by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Jules Barbier y Michel Carré, after E.T.A. Hoffmann
Production of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Artistic team
Conductor | Evelino Pidò
Stage director | John Schlesinger
Set designer | William Dudley
Costumes designer | Maria Björnson
Lighting designer | David Hersey
Choreographer | Eleanor Fazan
Fight director | William Hobbs
Chorus master | William Spaulding
Cast
Hoffmann | Vittorio Grigòlo
Councillor Lindorf | Thomas Hampson
Olympia | Sofia Fomina
Giulietta | Christine Rice
Antonia | Sonya Yoncheva
Nicklausse | Kate Lindsey
Spalanzani | Christophe Mortagne
Crespel | Eric Halfvarson
Frantz | Vincent Ordonneau
Spirit of Antonia's mother | Catherine Carby
Nathanael | David Junghoon Kim
Hermann | Charles Rice
Schlemil | Yuriy Yurchuk
Luther | Jeremy White
Stella | Olga Sabadoch
