The Metropolitan Opera: Les Contes d’Hoffmann (2024)

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After a celebrated career as a composer of lighthearted operetta, Jacques Offenbach turned his hand to more serious fare—only to die before his one true opera was completed. That work, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, was based on a play that strung together a collection of stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann and cast the famed poet as the protagonist of his own tales. In this performance from the 2024–25 Live in HD season, French tenor Benjamin Bernheim stars as Hoffmann, four times unlucky in love. Alongside him as the objects of his affections, soprano Erin Morley is the high-flying automaton Olympia, mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine is the Venetian courtesan Giulietta, and soprano Pretty Yende is both the diva Stella and the ill-fated songstress Antonia. Bass-baritone Christian Van Horn portrays the four nefarious Villains who outwit Hoffmann at every turn, and mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya is Hoffmann’s Muse and his companion Nicklausse, conducted by Marco Armiliato.

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• Benjamin Bernheim

  Hoffmann

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  Erin Morley

  Olympia

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  Pretty Yende

  Antonia / Stella

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  Clémentine Margaine

  Giulietta

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  Christian van Horn

  Lindorf / Coppélius / Dr. Miracle / Dapertutto

• Vasilisa Berzhanskaya

  Muse / Nicklausse

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  Aaron Blake

  Andrès / Cochenille / Frantz / Pitichinaccio

• Tony Stevenson

  Nathanaël / Spalanzani

• Bradley Garvin

  Luther / Crespel

• Jeongcheol Cha

  Hermann / Schlémil

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  Marco Armiliato

  Conductor

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Yönetmen

Bartlett Sher

Senaryo

Jules Barbier

Müzik

Jacques Offenbach