BERLIN — The composer Jacques Offenbach captured the streets of mid-19th-century Paris like no other. But while he produced about 130 scores for the stage, his profile is often reduced to a spirited ...

Jacques Offenbach has written 25 shows including La Belle Hélène (Composer), La Jolie Parfumeuse (Composer), The Gay Parisienne (Composer), Orpheus in the Underworld (Composer), Madame Favart ...

Offenbach, who also launched avant-garde innovations in stagecraft and design, played a leading role in cultural change, not only in music but also in literature, art, and politics, as he offered an ...

It almost collapsed — and yet Friday’s opening night of Opera Company of Middlebury’s production of Jacques Offenbach’s “Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld),” to say the least, was ...

The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the ...

Opera À La Carte San Diego, which made its debut in May 2024 with an intimate East Village production of Puccini’s “La bohème,” will return later this month with an opera that has never been stage in ...

Once again, more than half a decade has gone by since clarinetist GIanluigi Trovesi and accordionist Gianni Coscia last recorded. Round About Weill (ECM, 2005) represented a shift away from the ...

Neben der Wiederaufnahme von Bartlett Shers gefeierter Inszenierung von Jacques Offenbachs LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN ("Hoffmanns Erzählungen") kommt mit GROUNDED eine von der Met in Auftrag gegebene Oper ...

Zwischen 40 und über hundert Bühnenwerke sind es im Fall Jacques Offenbach geworden. So ganz genau weiß das wohl nicht einmal dessen kritisch-musikwissenschaftlicher Lordsiegelbewahrer Jean-Christophe ...

Was wäre das Festival Euroclassic ohne die Blieskasteler A-Cappella-Nacht? Sie war von Anfang an ein Renner. Am 13. Oktober findet sie zum 13. Mal statt – und ist schon... Was wäre das Festival ...