Hoffmanns Erzählungen (2011)
• October 30th, 2011 • 2h 48min
Drama, Fantasy, Music
Overview
Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach that combines three short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann into a haunting whole: a melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer. One of the questions this opera poses for any director is how to link the 'tales' of Hoffmann's three lost loves together and knit them satisfactorily into the Prologue and Epilogue. In this production, Richard Jones solves the puzzle by turning it into an autobiographical journey which ends with a grand meet-up of all the characters Hoffmann has encountered: for once, Hoffmann is not presented as a rollicking kind of drunken story-spinner, but rather a sad-eyed, sobered-up depressive, who reaches for the bottle only because his disastrous love life has gone wrong yet again.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Copying Beethoven
Released on: 2006-09-10
Drama
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...
Prisoner of Honor
Released on: 1991-11-02
Drama, History, TV Movie
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscur...
Wonders - Alice's Quest
Released on: 2019-12-08
Adventure, Fantasy
Alice is in a dimension known as Maravilhas - which is already in a post-apocalyptic period and the ...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Released on: 2001-11-16
Adventure, Fantasy
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11t...
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Released on: 2002-11-13
Adventure, Fantasy
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of hi...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Released on: 2004-05-31
Adventure, Fantasy
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching ...
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Released on: 2005-11-16
Adventure, Fantasy
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling batt...
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Released on: 2007-07-08
Adventure, Fantasy
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about ...
The Piano
Released on: 1993-05-18
Drama, Romance
A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband refuses ...
The Science of Sleep
Released on: 2006-06-25
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can sho...
Miss Julie
Released on: 2014-09-07
Drama, Romance
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish ...
Perawan Seberang
Released on: 2013-08-29
Horror, Drama
The story begins with the desire Yulia Sumbukurung, son of Beetle Pangkalima chairman Jaya one very ...
The Lost Daughter
Released on: 2021-12-15
Drama
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to co...
The Prestige
Released on: 2006-10-17
Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supre...
The Miracle Worker
Released on: 1962-05-23
Drama
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...
The Hobbit
Released on: 1977-11-27
Family, Fantasy, Animation, Adventure, TV Movie
Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the ...
Hometown
Released on: 2022-10-15
Drama
Sangwoon lives in Gajeong-dong, an old neighborhood in Incheon. He works in Cheongna, a new city bey...