Jacques Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann (2016) BDRip

Tracklist:
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
(The Tales of Hoffmann - Hoffmanns Erzählungen)
Opera in five acts

Olympia / Giulietta - Kerstin Avemo
Antonia / Giulietta - Mandy Fredrich
La Muse / Nicklausse / La Voix de la tombe - Rachel Frenkel
Hoffmann - Daniel Johansson
Lindorf / Luther / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto - Michael Volle
Spalanzani - Bengt-Ola Morgny
Crespel - Ketil Hugaas
Andrès / Cochenille / Frantz - Christophe Mortagne

Prague Philharmonic Chorus (chorus master: Lukáš Vasilek)
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Debus, conductor

Stefan Herheim, stage director
Christof Hetzer, set designer
Esther Bialas, costume designer
Andreas Hofer "Phoenix", lighting designer

• Recorded live at Bregenz Festival, 2015

• Bregenz's Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before. The New York Times praised the "thoughtfulness and creativity" of Stefan Herheim's new production, devised by the director as a search for one's own self in a sparkling drag show. A "shining-toned" (NYT) Hoffmann is embodied by tenor Daniel Johansson in the title role. He is supported by a fantastic cast: "Rachel Frenkel is positively ideal as Muse and Niklausse" (Kurier), Kerstin Avemo as Olympia is "endowed with brilliant, cheekily extemporized coloraturas" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), Michael Volle sings the parts of Lindorf, Coppélius, Dr. Miracle and Dapertutto, "the work's four villains, with warmth and intensity" (NYT) and Mandy Fredrich is a "finelyphrased Antonia" (Kurier).