REAL TALES OF HOFFMANN

with spoken dialogue or recitatives. Essays explain what was done to the opera after Offenbach s death, from the 1881 Opera-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 opera-comique will find it of particular interest, as will opera houses, conductors, singers, directors, and dramaturgs involved in performances of the opera.