Benjamin Bernheim performs the title role of the tormented poet for Offenbach’s final work. Hoffmann’s trio of lovers are sung by Erin Morley as the mechanical doll Olympia, Pretty Yende as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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This aria performed by the ‘doll’ Olympia in Offenbach’s opera Les Contes d’Hoffmann is arguably the most difficult piece ever written for soprano. Offenbach’s opera Les Contes d’Hoffmann is set in a ...

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 ...