Les Contes d’Hoffmann
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Annotation
Re Ordering of the acts: Please be mindful in the choice of the Antonia and Giulietta Actes to which you are adding your arias. The original Offenbach order has "Antonia" as Acte III, and "Giulietta" as Acte IV. This is the favored order to which productions are returning. In the late 20th Century many productions reversed this order, with "Antonia" as Acte IV, and "Giulietta" as Acte III. See subsection at >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tales_of_Hoffmann#Editions
Refer also to French Wikipedia >http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Contes_d%27Hoffmann
Acts also follow original Offenbach order in German Wikipedia >http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffmanns_Erz%C3%A4hlungen
The second complication for this opera is the numbering or Naming of the Acts. Even within an opera version, some will number the Prologue as Acte I, some number only the middle three acts. While MusicBraniz style designates that acts must be numbered, in the case of this opera only 5 designations would be needed if the acts were only named (Prologue-Olympia-Antonia-Giulietta-Epilogue).
Relationships
| composer: | Jacques Offenbach (German-French composer, cellist and impresario) |
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| librettist: | Jules Barbier |
| download score for free: | imslp: Les contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach, Jacques) [info] |
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| Wikidata: | Q335012 [info] |
| later translated versions: | Hoffmanns Erzählungen The Tales of Hoffmann |
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| parts: | 1. Les Contes d’Hoffmann : Acte I (Prologue) (act) 2. Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Acte II (Olympia) 3. Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Acte III (Antonia) (Offenbach order; critical Oeser edition) (act) 4. Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Acte III (Giulietta) (alternate order) 5. Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Acte IV (Giulietta) (Offenbach order; critical Oeser edition) 6. Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Acte IV (Antonia) (alternate order) 7. Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Acte V (Épilogue) (act) |
| is the basis for: | Fantaisie pour harpe sur des motifs des Contes d’Hoffmann d’Offenbach |
Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| recordings | ||||
| 1956-05-24 | The Tales of Hoffmann: Intermezzo (Introduction—Minuet—Barcarolle) | partial | Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler | 5:50 |
| Hoffmanni lood: Hoffmanni stroofid | partial | Eesti Riiklik Sümfooniaorkester, Teater Estonia operikoor, Helmut Orusaar, Heino Otto | 3:43 | |
| Hoffmanns Erzählungen: Intermezzo und Barcarole - Instrumental | partial | Berliner Symphoniker, Wilhelm Schüchter | 3:26 | |
| Les Contes d'Hoffmann | partial | Emma Luart & Gaston Micheletti | 3:21 | |
| Les Contes d'Hoffmann: 'Can Can' | Colorado String Quartet, Ethos Percussion Group, Harold Faberman | 3:05 | ||
| Les Contes d’Hoffmann | partial | [unknown] | 3:20 | |
| Les Contes d’Hoffmann | partial | [unknown] | 2:48 | |