A scene from the Prologue of Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" with Ana Netrebko as Stella. (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) Joseph Calleja as Hoffmann and Ekaterina Gubanova as Giulietta in ...

In her role debut, American soprano Erin Morley plays the mechanical doll Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera. Morley’s vivid ballerina outfit and all costumes were ...

Le soir de Noël, la petite Marie se voit offrir un étrange bonhomme de bois, Casse-Noisette, ne se doutant pas qu'à la nuit tombée elle sera transportée dans le monde fantasmagorique des rêves et des ...

French tenor Benjamin Bernheim, who recently performed at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics to millions of viewers, makes his Met role debut as the title character and leads a cast making ...

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A cafe near the theatre where writer, artist and musician Hoffmann likes to go out. It's noisy and funny here. Here one can forget about their life problems. Today they show "Don Giovanni" by Mozart.

Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, May 10 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

There’s good and bad here, but the good is overwhelmingly about Grigolo. We’ve seen some less than subtle acting from the Italian tenor on this stage, heard some singing verging on the vulgar, but ...

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With his Roman glamour and pretty, sometimes tremulous voice, the tenor Vittorio Grigolo bounds onstage in the current revival of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” looking as though he’s taken a ...