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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Director Mariame Clément did such a good job with The Tales of Hoffmann this summer in Salzburg that it was fair to expect a ...

With its entrancing music Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is one of the favourites in the opera cannon and gets a new production at The Royal ...

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