An artistic collage featuring a personified stage character in a pink costume against a background of overlapping circular shapes in blue and green. At the bottom, the title “The Tales of Hoffmann” is written in large letters.

19.04.2027 - 12.05.2027

Hoffmanns Erzählungen - Wien - 2027

Volksoper Wien, Wien

Fantastic opera by Jacques Offenbach

Libretto by Jules Barbier, play version and new version of the dialogs by Peter te Nuyl

In German and French with German and English surtitles

 

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The poet Hoffmann is sitting in a pub and thinking about his lover Stella, who is performing in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the nearby opera house. At his side: his close friend Nicklausse. But the friend is actually the muse in disguise, and she has only one goal: to turn Hoffmann away from his unhappy love and back to noble art. Stimulated by the atmosphere in the pub and irritated by the presence of his romantic rival Lindorf, Hoffmann's mind begins to work and memories return. Memories of three women he once loved, who were supposedly snatched away from him by evil forces: Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta. The poet begins to do what his job is: to tell stories!

In Lotte de Beer's production, for which Peter te Nuyl has created a new version of the text, the muse enters into a dialog with Hoffmann, taking him on a journey and confronting him with himself and his own artistic soul. A dialog develops between the two, a confrontation between art and artist.

Co-production with the Opéra National du Rhin, the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique and the Opéra de Reims.

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Volksoper Wien

Währinger Straße 78
1090 Wien

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