The Tales of Hoffmann | Opera Synopsis | Avi Green
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- The Tales of who??
This weeks opera Synopsis is all about the man who wrote all the stories we love!
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Prologue
Hoffmann and Men's choir- The story of Kleinzach
"Il était une fois à la cour d'Eisenach"
Once upon a time at the court of Eisenach
Neil Shicoff- bit.ly/2AlW1HT
Ramón Vargas- bit.ly/2Alikxg
Vittorio Grigolo- bit.ly/2idcQue
Act I
Coppelius
"J'ai des yeux"
I have eyes
Bryan Terfel bit.ly/2jbF6OM
Olympia
"Les oiseaux dans la charmille"
The birds in the arbor, nicknamed "The Doll Song"
Kathleen Kim bit.ly/2iczNxG
Erin Morely bit.ly/2zLhib3
Patricia Petibon bit.ly/2yKQxq1
Act II
Antonia
"Elle a fui, la tourterelle"
She fled the dove
Anna Netrebko bit.ly/2AsuBOy
Rachel Harnisch bit.ly/2gUxpew
Kiri te Kanawa bit.ly/2BuPhF9
Franzt
"Jour et nuit je me mets en quatre"
Day and night I quarter my mind
Eric Huchet bit.ly/2j9IERR
Hoffmann and Antonia
"C'est une chanson d'amour"
It's a love song
Sonya Yoncheva & Vittorio Grigolo bit.ly/2AtcJDo
Act II Finally
Bryan Terfel, Ruth Anne Swenson, Nora Gubisch bit.ly/2npc6rA
Rachel Harnisch, Nicolas Cavallier, Nadine Denize bit.ly/2zJ2j0W
Act III
Barcarolle "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour"
Beautiful night, oh night of love
Doufexis, Wesseling- bit.ly/2nodf2F
Garanca & Netrebko bit.ly/2AsIIn7
Nicklausse aria:
Violin aria
Kate Lindsey bit.ly/2nnjrrG
Stella Doufexis bit.ly/2ki5pXa
The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach introduced me to the realm of opera.
When I was in first or second grade, we had to participate in this opera. I have very few memories of it. I was listening to another channel talking about the fairy tale “The Sandman” by Hoffman written in 1817. Funny enough, the video never mentions the name Hoffman that I noticed, but something caught my attention that made me find this video: in the short story The Sandman, the main character meets an artificial human named Olympia and is given a special spyglass that changes how he sees the artificial human and makes him mistake her for real. Ultimately, Olympia is destroyed and the main character is beaten over the head with the doll’s (specifically) broken body…
Sound familiar?
great video! thanks
Thank you so much for these videos! Really enjoying delving into the world of opera with a cup of tea with you :)
my pleasure I love making them! glad your enjoying them with a cup of tea :)
Thank you so much, this was informative and fun.
My favorite Stella is obviously Antonia and my favorite Lindorf is none other than Dapertutto 😁 Scintiiiiiiille diamaaaaaaaant 😻🎶
wow!
frank low Thank you :)
The reverse is more apposite; you brightened my day!
Thank you so much for that comment!! That makes me really happy :)
Glad to have you here!
Hey thank you. My kids have an Essential Elements book 2 in our orchestra class and I wanted to look up a qyick synopsis for the opera since one of the songs on page 2 is the barcarolle.
So glad I could help!
FYI I thought you said mechanical dog for most of the video 😜 which could be a very interesting premise for the story 🤔
Hahaha!!! Very interesting indeed! 😜 Maybe one day they will make an opera like that!
Okay, a month ago I commentad that I liked Olimpia the best of the four. Coming to think of it again, I cannot decide. Each one of the three - Olimpia, Giulietta and Antonia - is possesing marvellous virtues, expressed strongly in appearance, voice and elegence. All you have to do is to find for each one the right singer, who you think can express these virtues good enough in all those ways.
Hahaha!! I don't blame you it is really hard to decide. And every singer and every performance will change your mind. I have changed my mind, about whole operas because of one specific performance and cast.
I think that's one of the greatest things about theater, everyone has a chance to put there own creative spin on the story. Whereas in movies we don't really like when they remake them.
(I do LOVE movies though)
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And another thing: in the end of the video you called Stella "silent". Now, I'm not judging you or something, god forbids! I just thought you might wanna know a little more. In most versions, Stella really is silent. But in Offenbach's original version, right before Hoffmann rejects her in the Epilogue, she gets a final duet with Hoffmann. However, this duet wasn't performed in the premiere due to some really massive cuts. But it had premiered in the reconstruction of "Tales of Hoffmann" in 2003 at the Opera of Lausanne, with Marlin Miller as Hoffmann and Mireille Delunsch as the Four Heroines (Olimpia, Antonia, Stella and Giulietta). Here's a recording:
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04:08 By the way, you said "Hoffmann and Olimpia" while I'm quite sure you meant to say "Hoffmann and Antonia"
whoops! I filmed this so long ago now. I am sure you are right!
05:28 To answer your question, I liked Olympia the best.
She is great! :)
But why is this calling "Stella!!!" sounds familier? I think I already heard it once before
It's a famous line from a play/movie "A Street Car Named Desire" and it has been a popular term in pop culture ever since. there is a famous scene from Seinfeld as well, referencing that line.
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"Stella!!!"
"Olimpia!!!"
"Giulietta!!!"
"Antonia!!!"