Charles George, Jacques Offenbach
A poet is looking for loving inspiration. On his romantic quests, Hoffmann is accompanied by his muse and his nemesis. The muse is incarnated as his sidekick, Nicklausse. His nemesis changes personas to thwart each love chapter. Despite his track record with the ladies, Hoffmann keeps putting himself out there. Or is it all in his head?
JACQUES OFFENBACH was a German-born French composer, remembered for nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss II and Arthur Sulliva ...
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