“Hoffmann's Tales” were placed in Perm

On January 27, on the stage of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater, the premiere of the opera of Jacques Offenbach “Hoffmann's Tales” in the production of Katerina Evanglatos will take place.

Premiere performances are also scheduled for January 28, 30 and 31 and February 1.

The musical leader Theodor Krentzis, conductor Artem Abashev, artist Galya Solodovnikov, artist George Telelos, choremaster-holder Vitaly Polonsky, choreographer Aperga, assistant director Vladimir Bocharov and assistant choreographer Maro Marmarin, worked on the performance .

Musicaeterna , Russian and foreign singers, including Yonuts Pasku, Nigel Smith, Timothy Richards, Kor-Yang Dussel, Nadezhda Kucher, Nadezhda Pavlova, Angelica Minasova, Zarina Abaeva and Aisulu Khasanova, are involved in the production.

The Libretto of Jules Barbier is based on the works of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann: “Sand Man”, “The Tale of the Lost Image” and “Counselor Krypel”. The performance in three actions with a prologue and epilog is performed in French with Russian titles.

““ Hoffmann's Tales ”is a game of different worlds, prohibited exotic, thoroughly hidden in the human body. And this is a very important point for the drama of the XIX century. - says Theodore Krentzis. - For Hoffmann, love for Juliet is love without tomorrow and yesterday, love for reinforced moments. Love for Anthony is a love that will remain with him forever, because it does not have time to happen. Love for Olympia is a love of youth. And cynical love, and, perhaps, even fetishism. Did he really not understand that she was a doll? Yes, I understood, of course. But he fell in love with this remark. The society has the first move here, it sets the framework, the rules of the game. The next move is for a person. He may agree with them or try to destroy this architecture. Hoffmann chooses the second. "