Mad Loves
In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach''s final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d''Hoffmann summed up not only the composer''s career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as a series of dreamlike episodes, peopled by such archetypes as the Poet, the Beautiful Dying Girl, the Automaton, t...
In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach''s final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d''Hoffmann summed up not only the composer''s career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as a series of dreamlike episodes, peopled by such archetypes as the Poet, the Beautiful Dying Girl, the Automaton, t...
