Offenbach's fantastical final work, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), opens the Metropolitan Opera's 2024–25 Live in HD season on Saturday, October 5, at 1PM ET. French tenor Benjamin ...
A scene from the Prologue of Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" with Ana Netrebko as Stella. (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) Joseph Calleja as Hoffmann and Ekaterina Gubanova as Giulietta in ...
French tenor Benjamin Bernheim, who recently performed at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics to millions of viewers, makes his Met role debut as the title character and leads a cast making ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The opening of a new season at the Metropolitan Opera marks the pinnacle of gala time in New York, with its red ...
In her role debut, American soprano Erin Morley plays the mechanical doll Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera. Morley’s vivid ballerina outfit and all costumes were ...
With his Roman glamour and pretty, sometimes tremulous voice, the tenor Vittorio Grigolo bounds onstage in the current revival of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” looking as though he’s taken a ...