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 ...

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

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

‘The Tales of Hoffmann’, an ‘opera fantastique’, was Jacques Offenbach’s valedictory work and an attempt by the composer, the ...

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 ...

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

Jules Barber’s libretto knits together three scenes from the love life of the (real) German romantic poet ETA Hoffmann – a figure of major importance for his writings and himself a composer ...