BERLIN — The composer Jacques Offenbach captured the streets of mid-19th-century Paris like no other. But while he produced about 130 scores for the stage, his profile is often reduced to a spirited ...

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 ...

The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the ...

Netflix doesn’t qualify as a solo offender when it comes to Gallic stereotypes, as three musical theater works on the city’s stages show. By Laura Cappelle Our critics and writers have selected ...

When Jacques Offenbach began writing The Tales of Hoffmann, in 1877, he hoped the opera would boost his reputation to a whole new level. It did exactly that — but unfortunately, the composer never ...

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 ...

It almost collapsed — and yet Friday’s opening night of Opera Company of Middlebury’s production of Jacques Offenbach’s “Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld),” to say the least, was ...

The Greek National Opera partners with one of the most important and historic opera houses in Europe, the Opéra Comique in Paris, for an adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's Le Voyage dans la Lune, ...

NORFOLK – Virginia Opera announced Tuesday that it will open its 2007-08 season on Sept. 28 with a new production of Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann.” In the tragic opera, last staged by ...

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 ...