Film

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (1988)

• NR
• 2 maart 1988

• Muziek

Overzicht

Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fairy-tale magic. It is a superb setting for Neil Shicoff’s vivid portrayal of the tortured poet Hoffmann, as he recounts the loves of his life and the way he has been foiled by his nemesis—a marvelous James Morris in a tour-de-force performance of the opera’s four villains. Gwendolyn Bradley is the doll Olympia, Tatiana Troyanos sings the courtesan Giulietta, and Roberta Alexander portrays the innocent Antonia.

Regisseurs

Brian Large, Otto Schenk

Scenaristen

Jules Barbier

Met in de hoofdrol

Neil Shicoff, Susan Quittmeyer, James Morris