Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffman (3-CD) – Roberto Alagna, Natalie Dessay
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Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffman (3-CD) – Roberto Alagna, Natalie Dessay
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Artists: Roberto Alagna, Natalie Dessay, José Van Dam, Sumi Jo, Leontina Vaduva, Juanita Lascarro, Catherine Dubosc, Michel Sénéchal, Gabriel Bacquier, Ludovic Tézier, Gilles Ragon, Jean-Marie Frémeau, Chœur et Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Number of Discs: 3
Label: Warner Classics
CD Release Date: April 7, 2016
Roberto Alagna, superbly stylish in French, embodies the poet Hoffmann, whose dreams of love are repeatedly shattered by José van Dam’s inimitable four villains. Natalie Dessay conquers the world as the mechanical doll Olympia, while Sumi Jo seduces as Giulietta, and Leontina Vaduva wrings the heart as Antonia. Conducting Michael Kaye’s comprehensive edition of the episodic score (left incomplete at Offenbach’s death), Kent Nagano brilliantly fuses the diverse elements of Les Contes d’Hoffmann.
History
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Premiere: Opéra Comique, Paris, 1881. After becoming the toast of Paris with his witty operettas, Jacques Offenbach set out to create a more serious work. He chose as his source a successful play based on the stories of visionary German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann. Three of these tales—at once profound, eerie, and funny—were unified in the play by a narrative frame that made Hoffmann the protagonist of his own stories. Each episode recounts a catastrophic love affair, and throughout the opera, Hoffmann is dogged by a diabolical nemesis and accompanied by his faithful friend Nicklausse.
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