Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach

male, deceased (1880)
Jewish, comic opera, Théâtre Français, Les Contes de Hoffmann, la vie parisienne, Théâtre de la Gaîté…Lescontes d'Hoffmann
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 - 5 October 1880) was a French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta...

Michel Carré

male, deceased (1872)
Opera librettist, Lescontes d'Hoffmann, mireille, bizet, offenbach, librettist…Les pêcheurs de perles
Michel Carré was a prolific French librettist. He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter but took up writing instead. He wrote verse a...
Laurent Pelly

Laurent Pelly

male
Opera director, Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le, Compagnie Théâtrale du Pélican, Un Petit Voyage dans la Lune, The Love for Three Oranges, Opéra National de Lyon…Les Fées du Rhin, Lescontes d'Hoffmann
Laurent Pelly (born 1962) is a French opera and theatre director. At the age of 18, he founded the "Compagnie Théâtrale du Pélican" which, since 198...
Anja Silja

Anja Silja

female, 69 years old
Die Zauberflöte, cavalleria rusticana, carmen, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, otello, Die Walküre…Lescontes d'Hoffmann
Anja Silja, born April 17, 1940, in Berlin, is a German soprano, who is known for her great abilities as a singing-actress and for the vastness of...

Jürgen Flimm

male, 68 years old
Munich Kammerspiele, film actor, hamlet, University of Cologne, As You Like It, The Wild Duck…Lescontes d'Hoffmann
Jürgen Flimm was born in Gießen, Germany. He studied theory of drama, literature and sociology at the University of Cologne and started his ca...
Norman Treigle

Norman Treigle

male
the crucible, New Orleans Opera, Moore, orff, copland, Bass-baritone…Lescontes d'Hoffmann
Norman Treigle was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the fifth and final child of a poor carpenter and his wife. Following his 1946 marriage to the...
Mado Robin

Mado Robin

female, deceased (1960)
World War II, lucia di lammermoor, Soprano, French, Coloratura Soprano, il barbiere di siviglia…Lescontes d'Hoffmann, Les pêcheurs de perles
Madeleine Marie Robin, known as Mado Robin, was a French singer who was born in Yzeures-sur-Creuse, Touraine. A coloratura soprano, she had an...
Giuseppe Sabbatini

Giuseppe Sabbatini

male, 52 years old
la traviata, eugene onegin, Italian, la scala, Tenor, covent garden…Lescontes d'Hoffmann, Les pêcheurs de perles
Giuseppe Sabbatini is a lyric tenor. His opera repertoire includes Idomeneo, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Don Giovanni, Linda di Chamounix, La Favorita,...

Chris Merritt

male, 57 years old
verdi, Lescontes d'Hoffmann, I Puritani, Santa Fe Opera, rossini, falstaff
Chris Merritt (born 1952, Oklahoma City) is an opera singer. He studied piano, singing, dance and drama at Oklahoma City University where he made...
Fritz Oeser

Fritz Oeser

male
Musicologist, carmen, musicology, Lescontes d'Hoffmann, Symphony No. 3, Third Symphony, in D Minor
Fritz Oeser was a musicologist, most famous for preparing restored versions of Bizet's Carmen in 1964 and Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann in...