![]() ![]() He is Senior Lecturer and Head of German at the University of St Andrews. Tom Smith is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. It was Offenbach's final work he died in October 1880, four months before the premiere. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. Hoffmann-Gesellschaft bietet Raum, aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zu E.T.A. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann) is an opra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. ) Das Forschungsforum auf der Jahrestagung der E.T.A. Hoffmann himself is a character in the opera. Keith Chapin is senior lecturer in music at Cardiff University. 1 day ago &0183 &32 Forschungsforum anlässlich der Jahrestagung der E.T.A. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. Joanna Neilly is Associate Professor and Fellow and Tutor in German at the University of Oxford. Anne McElvoy marks 200 years since his death gathering together literary and musical scholars to look at his legacy. ![]() ![]() His opera Undine ended its run at the Berlin Theatre after a fire.ĭuring his lifetime he also saw Warsaw and Berlin occupied by Napoleon and during the Prussian war against France, he wrote an account of his visit to the battlefields and he became entangled in various legal disputes towards the end of his life. In the theatre he worked as a stagehand, decorator, playwright and manager and he wrote his own musical works. A great book with five of Hoffmanns short stories and an introduction by Cohen. The German Romantic author of horror and fantasy published stories which form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, the ballet Coppélia and the Nutcracker. Hoffmann - Tales from Hoffmann - Theodore Bunn / Bodley Head. ![]()
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