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19:00 | Les Contes d'Hoffmann |
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 Opera by Jacques Offenbach. 170 min (with one intermission). Libretto by Jules Barbier. Music Director and Conductor: Evgeny Brazhnik. Sung in French. This is the only opera by the operetta master Jacques Offenbach, and also his last work. The music of "Les Contes d’Hoffmann" ("The Tales of Hoffmann") has sounded at the K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre more than once. In 1946, conductor E. Akulov and stage director P. Markov, the outstanding Russian critic who had closely cooperated with the Music Theatre as a stage director, produces what they called "The Poet’s Love" after the Offenbach’s opera. In 1959, our long-time friend, Komische Oper Berlin Theatre, presented their version of "The Tales of Hoffmann" at our stage as part of a performing tour, while in 1987 it was the Komische Oper Ballet that presented its choreographic transcription. The same year again, the Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) Opera Theatre presented "Les Contes d’Hoffmann" on the Music Theatre’s stage, which was a fabulous success. Those responsible for the creation of the "Sverdlovsk phenomenon", as the Theatre was then referred to, were conductor Evgeny Brazhnik, stage director Alexander Titel, and set designer Valery Levental. And now, a quarter century later…
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