Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Opéra-fantastique in five acts by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Libretto by Jules Paul Barbier after the drame fantastique of the same name
by Barbier and Michel Florentin Carré

Dates & Tickets

Duration :
approx. 3 H. 30 Min. Inkl. Pausen.
Language:
In French with German and English surtitles.
More information:
Introduction 45 min before the performance.

Fassung

Which version?

Jacques Offenbach left his last opera The Tales of Hoffmann unfinished. Since the posthumous premiere in 1881, different versions have been issued by various publishers, and to this day every new production has to decide in favour of one of the available versions. The Opernhaus Zürich has chosen the version published by the two editors Michael Kaye and Jean-Christophe Keck. It takes into account all the manuscripts left behind by Offenbach (some of which were only discovered in 1993).