| Description |
xvii, 565 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Physical Medium |
regular print |
| Note |
Chiefly essays by Michael Kaye and Vincent Giroud with additional contributions from Charlie Richards and George Loomis. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography, videography, and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Plácido Domingo ; Introduction ; Acknowledgments ; Chronology -- Part I: Essays. Awareness and influence of E.T.A. Hoffmann in France before Les contes d'Hoffmann / Vincent Giroud ; Librettists of Les contes d'Hoffmann / Vincent Giroud ; "Hallucinations in the tavern": Barbier's scenario of the play / Michael Kaye ; Barbier and Carré play and its reception / Michael Kaye ; Birth of the opera : The revision for the Théatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin (1866) ; Summary of the extant fragments of the revision for the Théatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin ; Hector Salomon: Le rêve d'Hoffmann (1875-1881) ; The unrealized Opéra-féerie version of Les contes d'Hoffmann / Michael Kaye ; Les contes d'Hoffmann: from play to opera libretto / Charles Richards ; Barbier as versifier / Vincent Giroud ; Hoffmann after Offenbach : Summary of performances at the Opéra Comique prior to 1911 and the first performances of the opera in other countries ; The Brussels version of the opera (Dupont and Lapissida) Théâtre de la Monnaie, 1887 ; The surprising tale of Raoul Gunsbourg's version of the opera (Monte-Carlo, 1904) ; Synopsis of Raoul Gunsbourg's version of the epilogue (Monte-Carlo, 1904) ; The complete text of the épilogue in Calmann Lévy 1904 ; Gunsbourg's collaborator, André Bloch ; Albert Carré's 1911 revivial of Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Opéra Comique assured the opera of its place in the repertoire / Michael Kaye ; Les contes d'Hoffmann on the stage: from Felsenstein to the present / George Loomis ; "Elle est sur la scène": arriving at and choosing a version / Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye -- Part II: The play and the libretto. Les contes d'Hoffmann: the complete 1851 Barbier and Carré play in prose and verse, with a documentation of the original incidental music by Joseph Ancessy / edited by Michael Kaye, English translation by Vincent Giroud ; Libretto of Les contes d'Hoffmann / English translation, edition, and annotations by Michael Kaye ; E.T.A. Hoffmann of Barbier and Carré: annotations pertaining to the literary sources for the play and the opera / Michael Kaye and Charlie Richards -- Appendices. A. Comparative table of venues in the opera in early sources ; B. Descriptions of E.T.A. Hoffmann by Adolphe François Loève-Veimars / English translation by Vincent Giroud ; C. Litte-known responses to E.T.A. Hoffmann prior to Barbier and Carré play ; Gaetano Donizetti's Le violon de Crémone d'Hoffmann : romance for voice, violin, and piano ; Juliette Godillon: A forgotten French composer inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann ; D. A Weimar-era example of the popularization of Offenbach's opera: "Laß' dir nix von Hoffmann erzählen" (1929) / Michael Kaye -- Select discography, filmography, and videography / Charlie Richards ; Index ; About the authors. |
| Summary |
Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history than Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Based on a highly successful 1851 play inspired by the short stories by the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the work occupied the last decade of Offenbach's life. When he died in October 1880, the work was being rehearsed at the Opéra-Comique. At once cut and rearranged, the work was performed from the start in versions that ignored the composer's final intentions. Only a few decades ago, when previously unavailable manuscripts came to light, it became possible to reconstitute the score in its real form. Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye's The Real Tales of Hoffmann tells the full story for the first time in English. After discussing how the work of Hoffmann became known and influential in France, the book includes little-known sources for the opera, especially the complete Barbier and Carré play, in French and English. It describes the genesis of the opera. The annotated libretto is published in full, with the variants, for the two versions of the opera: with spoken dialogue or recitatives. Essays explain what was done to the opera after Offenbach's death, from the 1881 Opéra-Comique production to more recent restoration attempts. There is also a survey of Les contes d'Hoffmann in performance from the 1970s to the present, and supplementary information, including discography, filmography, and videography. The Real Tales of Hoffmann is intended to appeal to anyone interested in the work, specialists or non-specialists. Audiences, musicologists and students of French opera and opéra-comique will find it of particular interest, as will opera houses, conductors, singers, directors, and dramaturgs involved in performances of the opera [Publisher description] |
| Subject |
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Contes d'Hoffmann.
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Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822.
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Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822. |
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Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach, Jacques) |
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Barbier, Jules 1825-1901. Les contes d'Hoffmann. |
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Hoffmann, E. T. A. 1776-1822. |
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Offenbach, Jacques 1819-1880. Les contes d'Hoffmann. |
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Entstehung. |
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Libretto. |
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Rezeption. |
| Added Author |
Giroud, Vincent, author.
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Domingo, Plácido, 1941- writer of added commentary.
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Container of (work): Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901.
Contes d'Hoffmann (Play)
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Container of (expression): Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901.
Contes d'Hoffmann (Play). English.
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Container of (work): Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901.
Contes d'Hoffmann (Libretto)
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Container of (expression): Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901.
Contes d'Hoffmann (Libretto). English.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kaye, Michael, 1948- Real tales of Hoffmann. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] 9781442260856 (DLC) 2016043136 |
| ISBN |
9781442260832 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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1442260831 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9781442260849 (paperback) |
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144226084X (paperback) |
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9781442260856 |
| Standard No. |
40027281830 |
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