Opéra fantastique in 5 Acts, 1881 - Music Jacques Offenbach - Libretto Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
Theater Freiburg (2017)
« A poet, a dreamer… whose stories are as bad as are his music and his art !
Could this be what she needs ? » - Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Act I
CAST
Musical direction: Fabrice Bollon
Staging, Set and Costume design: Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Deloeuil
Lighting: Christophe Pitoiset
Video: Jean-Baptiste Beis
Graphic design: Julien Roques
Dramaturgy: Luc Bourrousse
Artistic collaboration: Lodie Kardouss
Rolf Romei, Juan Orozco, Samantha Gaul, Solen Mainguené, Juanita Lascarro, Inga Schäfer, Roberto Gionfriddo, Anja Jung, Yongsoo Yang, Jim Seok Lee, John Carpenter, Stefanie Mrachacz
PRODUCTION
Theater Freiburg
ABOUT
Why do we need poetry, now more than ever? On the day of his award ceremony, the poet-composer Hoffmann is violently shot by the local politician Lindorf. The flashbacks associated with Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta all take place in Hoffmann’s subconscious while he is dying. This near-death juncture allows him to review and affirm his unbroken fight for beauty and poetry. Federico García Lorca, Pier Paolo Pasolini; but also Friedrich Hölderlin and Bob Dylan. These writers all inspire this operatic exploration of the political role of poetry.
