Les Contes d'Hoffmann
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Opera: Work details
| Composer: |
Jacques Offenbach |
| Music title: |
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (1881) |
| Librettist: |
Jules Barbier |
| Work definition: |
Opera fantastique in five acts |
| Title notes: |
Also known as 'The Tales of Hoffmann' |
| After: |
After the play 'Les Contes fantastiques d'Hoffmann' by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on the stories of E T A Hoffmann |
| Language: |
French |
| World premiere: |
10 February 1881, Opéra-Comique, Paris |
| ROH premiere: |
5 October 1910, Thomas Beecham Opera Season |
| ROH company premiere: |
26 October 1954, Covent Garden Opera Company, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London |