Les Contes d'Hoffmann
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 3, 2009
Closed Jan 2, 2010
Opened Dec 3, 2009
Closed Jan 2, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
This brand new production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann is conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher. Joseph Calleja sings the title role for the first time in his career, and Anna Netrebko adds new roles to her Met repertoire as both Antonia and Stella. Also making role debuts are Kathleen Kim as Olympia, Ekaterina Gubanova as Giulietta, and Kate Lindsey as Nicklausse/The Muse. Alan Held, who has tackled all four villain roles before, reprises this feat in the new production.
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When the Met's sumptuous curtain rises for the third act of Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher's decidedly uneven new production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann, the Jacques Offenbach-Jules Barbier-Michael Carre dramatic opera, the audience rightfully gives out with a collective "aah."
Before them is designer Michael Yeargan's dark and glittering setting for an orgiastic 18th-century Venetian party. Among the guests are several female couples wearing scandalous scanties provided by Catherine Zuber and executing choreographer Dou Dou Huang's erotic legs-in-the-air splits, while Offenbach's famous barcarole "Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour" is intoned to mesmerizing effect. The sequence is the visual[...]