Opera

The Tales of Hoffmann

(Hoffmanni lood)

Fantastic opera in two acts.
Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann is alongside Bizet’s Carmen one of the most popular and most often performed and most loved French operas.

Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Director: Dmitri Bertman (Russia, Theatre Helikon)
Musical Director and Conductor: Lauri Sirp
Stage Designer: Igor Nežnõi (Russia, Theatre Helikon)
Costume Designer: Tatjana Tulubjeva (Russia, Theatre Helikon)

In Roles: Mart Madiste (Estonian National Opera), Atlan Karp, Annaliisa Pillak, Svetlana Trifonova (Russia), Alla Popova, Karmen Puis, Merle Jalakas, Valentina Kremen, Märt Jakobson, Taisto Noor, Mati Kõrts, Tõnu Kattai, Jaan Willem Sibul

Presented with one interval.
Running Time:

2:25

Performances:

In a wine cellar in Nuremberg the poet Hoffmann tells about his colourful love stories with three women that ended in disappointment: an automation called Olympia which seemed alive to Hoffmann ; a young singer, Antonia, suffering from tuberculosis, whose father has forbidden her to sing so that it does not remind him of his late wife; a courtesan called Giulietta who is under the power of the wicked witch, Dapertutto, and wants to be sheltered by Hoffmann.

It premiered on 10 February 1881 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

In 2007 Dmitri Bertman merited the Estonian Theatre Union Annual Award for best production.

In French with Estonian subtitles.

The premiere on 10 March 2007 in the Grand Building of the Vanemuine.

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