Duration170 Min
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Opera
Royal Opera House
Production Date: 15/11/2017
Duration170 Min
Video Formats
John Schlesinger's 1980 production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann acquired classic status at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden – bringing a cinematic ambition and sweep to the teeming, fantastic world of Offenbach's final masterpiece. This 2016 production marked its retirement from the repertoire, but with Vittorio Grigolo as the luckless poet, and Thomas Hampson as his many-faced arch-enemy, it went out in magnificent style – with the stellar trio of Sonya Yoncheva, Sofia Fomina and Christine Rice adding a jewel-like sparkle as the three objects of his passion. Old-school Romantic opera at its most sumptuous, and its most moving.
- Soloists:
- Sonya Yoncheva (Soprano), Thomas Hampson (Baritone), Sofia Fomina (Soprano), Christine Rice (Mezzo-Soprano), Kate Lindsey (Mezzo-Soprano), Vincent Ordonneau (Tenor), Vittorio Grigolo (Tenor), Christophe Mortagne (Tenor), Eric Halfvarson (Bass), Charles Rice (Baritone), Jeremy White (Bass), David Junghoon Kim (Tenor), Yuriy Yurchuk (Baritone), Catherine Carby (Mezzo-Soprano), Olga Sabadoch (Soprano)
- Conductor:
- Evelino Pidò
