Music. The Tales of Hoffmann by the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and Mulhouse

Opera with variable geometry of immense plasticity, offering the possibility of multiple versions (that of making cuts and/or additions, etc.), The Tales of Hoffmann is presented with spoken dialogue written by Peter te Nuyl for this production.

By choosing to focus on two characters, Hoffmann and his muse, that is to say the artist and his art, director Lotte de Beer wishes to question male narcissism with a female voice. A laudable intention… but which falls somewhat flat over the course of the skits where dialogue…