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 ...

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 ...

Part Frankfurt School social critique, part homage to the City of Light, this biography of the composer, originally published in German in 1937, is really the ""biography...of a society."" The late ...

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 ...

In der Regensburger Erstaufführung „Die Reise zum Mond“ übernimmt Patrizia Häusermann den Part von Prinz Caprice, ein aufgedrehter Mezzo in einer Hosenrolle. (Foto: Marie Liebig) Jacques Offenbach ...

Die Theatergesellschaft Root blickt auf eine beeindruckende, lange Tradition von 161 Jahren zurück. Seit ihrer letzten Operette sind lange sechs Jahre vergangen. Umso grösser ist nun die Freude bei ...

Netflix doesn’t qualify as a solo offender when it comes to Gallic stereotypes, as three musical theater works on the city’s stages show. By Laura Cappelle Our critics and writers have selected ...