Le conseiller Lindorf

LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN
Opéra fantastique en 3 actes, avec prologue et épilogue
Composer: Jacques Offenbach (1819–80), completed by Ernest Guiraud
Libretto: Jules Barbier, after Barbier and Michel Carré’s play Les Contes d’Hoffmann (1851)
First performance: Opéra-Comique, Paris, 10 February 1881

SETTING: Nuremberg, Munich and Venice, 19th century

Finale : ‘Des cendres de ton cœur’
As Hoffmann drowns his sorrows in drink, the Muse promises that his consolation will come through art.

La Muse (mezzo-soprano): Ann Murray
Stella, cantatrice (soprano): Dinah Bryant
Le conseiller Lindorf (bass-baritone): José Van Dam
Hoffmann, poète / a poet (tenor): Neil Shicoff
Hermann, étudiant / student (baritone): Marcel Vanaud
Luther, cabaretier (bass): Kurt Rydl
Nathanaël, étudiant / student (tenor): Thierry Dran
Andrès, valet de Stella / Stella’s valet (tenor): Robert Tear

Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling
Chorus & Orchestra of the Opéra National du Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie
Brussels, 1988