If you like purple tights, green glitter, algebraic equations, parrot puppets, diverting dance and smashed cellos, this is ...

The joy of fantasy is that it can mean so many things to so many people. In Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, a drunken poet tells the stories of three loves of his life. Are the three women distinct ...

Italian provocateur Damiano Michieletto takes the reins on Offenbach's already off-the-wall work - and it's a bewitching ...

Having all but sunk one seemingly unassailable opéra comique, Bizet’s Carmen, director Damiano Michieletto goes some way to ...

Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann has a reputation for being an unwieldy, overblown work, but Damiano Michieletto’s ...

Damiano Michieletto brings plenty of pizzazz to Offenbach's crowdpleaser, but wastes some of his on-stage talents ...

Last Updated on November 8, 2024 A ‘Fantastique’ Music Box of Delights – The Tales of Hoffman ‘The Tales of Hoffmann’, an ...

Sung by high tenor Juan Diego Flórez, poet Hoffmann, an old man now down on his luck, encouraged by drink, is recounting his ...

Chiara Vecchi’s splendid choreography includes briefly giving the dancers mouse heads, to remind one of the Hoffmann story ...

In 2003, four years before his death, acclaimed Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti was asked who would be his successor. "If I ...

In a poets feverish imagination the staging of Don Giovanni sets him off on a frenzied journey into nightmarish worlds Can Mozart himself offer him salvation as he loses himself in his fearful ...

Book theatre tickets for The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House. Love’s illusions unfold in a captivating, dreamlike journey.