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 ...

On Saturday, May 23, the Grays Harbor Opera Workshop will present highlights from Carmen, along with selections from Les ...

Benjamin Bernheim performs the title role of the tormented poet. Benjamin Bernheim performs the title role of the tormented poet for Offenbach’s final work. Hoffmann’s trio of lovers are sung by Erin ...

Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann opens the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season on October 5. French tenor Benjamin Bernheim makes his Met role debut as Hoffmann, joined by soprano Erin ...

Four years ago Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón took Covent Garden by storm when he essayed the role of Hoffmann for the first time. Richard Hickox conducted those memorable performances, so it was a ...

There’s good and bad here, but the good is overwhelmingly about Grigolo. We’ve seen some less than subtle acting from the Italian tenor on this stage, heard some singing verging on the vulgar, but ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Bartlett Sher’s production of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” often feels disjointed in performance. But in the current revival it coalesces around Vittorio Grigolo’s thrilling performance in the ...

Production of the Salzuberger Festspiele 2024. French director Mariame Clément will explore the relationship between art and real life by linking the three “tales” with individual stages of Hoffmann's ...