The focus is on Jacques Offenbach's last opera The Tales of Hoffmann, a work with which the "Mozart of the Champs Élysées" (Rossini on Offenbach) was 30 years pregnant and which he completed over eight years as his musical and ideological testament.
There are many legends surrounding this legacy work. The event will present new research that separates Offenbach's Hoffmann from the stories of others. As always in this series, the focus is on the music, which will be made to speak with the help of numerous sound examples.
