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Tales of Hoffmann

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Tales of Hoffmann

Opera by Jacques Offenbach; see Contes d'Hoffmann, Les.



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The Tales of Hoffmann is not the Offenbach of some 90 hard-edged and knowing operettas reflecting the morals of Second Empire Paris.
The commonly voiced assumption that, with the exception of The Tales of Hoffmann, Offenbach went off the boil after the collapse of the Second Empire is refuted by the unearthing of late scores that prove as pointed and sharp as anything else he wrote.
Had her career not been interrupted by war, she may well have been remembered as one of the great divas of the 20th century, but as it turned out, her greatest claim to fame is for providing the singing voice for Giulietta in the 1951 film version of The Tales of Hoffmann.
 
 
 
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