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Met Opera 2024-25: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Release date NZ: 24 / 10 / 2024
Release date AUS: N/A
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COMPOSER: Jacques Offenbach

CONDUCTOR: Marco Armiliato

PRODUCTION: Bartlett Sher

SET DESIGNER: Michael Yeargan

COSTUME DESIGNER: Catherine Zuber

LIGHTING DESIGNER: James F. Ingalls

CHOREOGRAPHER: Dou Dou Huang

REVIVAL STAGE DIRECTOR: Gina Lapinski

CAST: Erin Morley, Pretty Yende, Clémentine Margaine, Vasilia Berzhanskaya, Benjamin Bernheim, Aaron Blake, Christian Van Horn

RUN TIME: 225 minutes

Offenbach’s fantastical opera kicks off the Metropolitan Opera’s season of Live in HD performance transmissions, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. Joining Bernheim is American soprano Erin Morley as Olympia, South African soprano Pretty Yende as Antonia, and French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine as Giulietta to complete Hoffmann’s trio of lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher’s evocative production, which also features American bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the Four Villains and Russian mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in her company debut as Nicklausse.