MUSIC FILM "Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann" as part of 'Summer Sonata - A Festival of Opera and Ballet Films' > 6pm on 6th June 2018

Venue : Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate

Time : 6:00 pm Add to Calendar 06/06/2018 18:00 06/06/2018 20:30 Asia/Kolkata MUSIC FILM "Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann" as part of 'Summer Sonata - A Festival of Opera and Ballet Films' Event Page : https://www.delhievents.com/2018/05/music-film-jacques-offenbach-tales-hoffmann-summer-sonata-festival-opera-india-international-centre.html C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Duration : 2 hour 30 mins.

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : MUSIC FILM "Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann" as part of 'Summer Sonata - A Festival of Opera and Ballet Films'

This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works.

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

Film Details : 

Year : 1981

Format : dvd

Language : English subtitles

The Royal Opera, Covent Garden

Conductor: Georges Pretre

With Placido Domingo (Hoffmann), Luciana Serra (Olympia), Agnes Balsta (Giulietta), Ileana Cotrubas (Antonia)

Offenbach’s ‘fantastic’ grand opera, The Tales of Hoffmann (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), is based on tales by the German writer, E.T.A. Hoffmann. In a tavern in Nuremberg, the drunken poet, Hoffmann, is lamenting his failed love life, and how it’s all caused by his rival, the Councillor Lindorf. He tells his fellow-drinkers about his three past loves, three personifications of the same woman – Olympia, the ‘daughter’ of an inventor, who turns out to be a doll; a courtesan, Giulietta, who is under the spell of a sorcerer; Antonia, a sick girl who is lured into singing herself to death by the evil Dr. Miracle. An opera about an artist’s hopes and disappointments, in a fantasy world that is both romantic yet grotesque.

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