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Offenbach 200: celebrating Cologne's most famous son
Offenbach: Tales of Hoffmann for children - Young Woo Kim (Hoffmann), Arnheidur EirÃksdóttir (Muse), Kathrin Zukowski (Antonia) - Opera Cologne (Photo © Matthias Jung) As this year marks the 200th birthday of Cologne’s most-famous son, Jacques (Jakob) Offenbach, Opera Cologne is focusing on the birthday boy as never before. Tony Cooper reports Jacques Offenbach in the 1860s The ‘Offenbach Year’ at Opera Cologne began in the first month of this year with a compact family version of The Tales of Hoffmann performed by members of the International Opera Studio and Opera Cologne Ensemble under the baton of Rainer Mühlbach. Set to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and based on three short stories by ETA Hoffmann, the protagonist of the story, it turned out to be Offenbach’s final work. He died in October 1880, four months before the work’s première. Not only a brilliant artist and a […]
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