The gods are bored out of their minds. Up on Mount Olympus there's nothing to do but be good and live on a steady diet of ambrosia - which turns out to be pretty disgusting. So when the gods get the ...

Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is a comic opera. Its score was composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French text written by Ludovic Halévy and ...

I first came across Jacques Offenbach's opera Fantasio on German radio about 20 years ago. The recording they were playing was much older still and wasn't authentic in any way. But it was enough to ...

Opera Picciona has revealed details for its inaugural production, a double bill of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne and Offenbach's Le 66, which will be performed at the Houghton Hall Arts Community's ...

What: Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann,” part of the 2014-15 “Met Opera: Live in HD” broadcast season Where: The Finkel Auditorium at the Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge campus, 107 ...

When Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann was first performed in Paris in 1881, the composer had been dead for three months, so it is perhaps hardly surprising that the work was seen as ...

A handwritten original score of Jacques Offenbach's last opera, The Tales of Hoffmann, has been discovered in the archives of the Paris National Opera. The manuscript, thought to have been destroyed ...

If there was one legend sure to source its fair share of opera, it had to be the tale of Orpheus, the Greek hero who could charm the birds out of the trees with his music. Monteverdi, Telemann, and ...

As the title character in Jacques Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” peers at a mechanical doll through special fantasy-granting glasses, the toy becomes far more than the sum of her mannequin parts ...