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Offenbach - Tales of Hoffman | Bel Air BAC049

Offenbach - Tales of Hoffman

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Label: Bel Air

Cat No: BAC049

Barcode: 3760115300491

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 24th August 2009

Contents

Artists

Patricia Petibon
Marc Laho
Nicolas Cavallier
Stella Dufexis
Rachel Harnisch
Maria Riccarda Wesseling
Eric Huchet
Francisco Vas
Bernard Deletre
Rene Schirrer
Gilles Cachemaille
Choeur du Grand Theatre de Geneve
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conductor

Patrick Davin

Works

Offenbach, Jacques

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)

Artists

Patricia Petibon
Marc Laho
Nicolas Cavallier
Stella Dufexis
Rachel Harnisch
Maria Riccarda Wesseling
Eric Huchet
Francisco Vas
Bernard Deletre
Rene Schirrer
Gilles Cachemaille
Choeur du Grand Theatre de Geneve
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conductor

Patrick Davin

About

Offenbach's masterpiece, based on three stories by the German author E.T.A. Hoffmann, is both a three-act opera and a trilogy of taut, individual dramas, all rolled into one. This Geneva production from 2002 features baritone Marc Laho in the tour-de-force triple villain roles, with three different standout sopranos as the tales' three heroines.

French producer Olivier Py caused an uproar among Geneva opera-goers with a staging of Tales of Hoffmann that features full-frontal male and female nudity and simulated on-stage lesbian and heterosexual sex.

Audiences were left "gasping, giggling or reduced to stunned silence" by the production, which interprets the popular opera as an indictment of capitalist society. Py adds several simulated sex acts, including one between the poet Hoffman and the life-sized doll Olympia as she sings her main aria.

Soprano Patricia Petitbon is a major tour de force as she sings Olympia wearing only a transparent body stocking in a Venetian bordello.

Cast:
- Patricia Petibon (Olympia)
- Marc Laho (Hoffmann);
- Nicolas Cavallier (Lindorf, Coppelius, Dr. Miracle, Dapertutto)
- Stella Dufexis (Niklausse, Muse)
- Rachel Harnisch (Antonia)
- Maria Riccarda Wesseling (Giulietta)
- Eric Huchet (Andres, Cochenille, Frantz, Pitichinaccio)
- Francisco Vas (Spalanzani)
- Bernard Deletre (Schlemil)
- Rene Schirrer (Luther)
- Gilles Cachemaille (Crespel)

Staged by: Olivier Py

Bonus: After the show / Interview with Oliver Py

All zones, 16/9 PCM stereo, DTS 5.1
Subtitles: Fr, En, Ger, Spa
NTSC
197 minutes

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