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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history than Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Based on a highly successful 1851 play inspired by the short stories by the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the work occupied the last decade of Offenbach's life. When he died in October 1880, the work was being rehearsed at the Op©♭ra-Comique. At once cut and rearranged, the work was performed from the...
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