Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Salzburg Festival)
In France in the 1830s, a veritable cult of personality developed around E. T. A. Hoffmann, who remained one of the country’s most popular and influential writers for the rest of the century. He was admired for the way in which the ‘fantastic’—the supernatural—bursts into reality in his short stories and novels, blurring the boundaries between inner and outer life. But Hoffmann’s own personality was equally fascinating, as he embodied the quintessential Romantic artist, tormented from within; from the outset, his early biographers tended to imbue his life with legendary qualities. It is therefore hardly surprising that the works of several younger French authors soon came to feature not only characters inspired by Hoffmann’s writings, but also Hoffmann himself: the real-life poet became a literary figure.
Opera in three acts with prologue and epilogue
Music by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Jules Barbier y Michel Carré, after E.T.A. Hoffmann
Artistic team
Conductor | Marc Minkowski
Stage director | Mariame Clément
Set and costume designer| Julia Hansen
lightning | Paule Constable
Vídeo | Étienne Guiol
Choreography | Gail Skrela
Dramaturgy | Christian Arseni
Cast
Hoffmann | Benjamin Bernheim
Stella / Olympia / Antonia / Giulietta | Kathryn Lewek
Lindorf / Coppélius / Dr Miracle / Dapertutto | Christian Van Horn
The Muse / Nicklausse | Kate Lindsey
Andrès / Cochenille / Frantz / Pitichinaccio | Marc Mauillon Andrès
The Mother's Voice | Géraldine Chauvet
Spalanzani | Michael Laurenz
Crespel / Luther | Jérôme Varnier
Hermann / Peter Schlémil | Philippe-Nicolas Martin
Nathanael | Paco Garcia
Wilhelm | Yevheniy Kapitula
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Vienna Philharmonic
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