The real tales of Hoffmann : origin, history, and restoration of an operatic masterpiece / Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye ; foreward by Placido Domingo.
Includes index. Chiefly essays by Michael Kaye and Vincent Giroud with additional contributions from Charlie Richards and George Loomis. Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography and index.
Contents:
About the authors. Charlie Richards ; Introduction ; Acknowledgments ; Chronology -- Part I: Essays. A. Comparative table of venues in the opera in early sources ; Vincent Giroud ; The librettists of Les contes d'Hoffmann / Vincent Giroud ; "Hallucinations in the tavern": Barbier's scenario of the play / Micahel Kaye ; The Barbier and Carre play and its receiption / Michael Kaye ; The birth of the opera : The revision for the Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin (1866) ; Summary of the extant fragments of the revision for the Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin ; Hector Salomon: Le reve d'Hoffmann (1875-1881) ; The unrealized Opera-feerie version of Les contes d'Hoffmann / Michael Kaye ; Les contes d'Hoffmann: from play to opera libretto / Charles Richards ; Barbier as versifier / Vincent Giroud ; Hoffmann after Offenbach : Summary of performances at the Opera Comique prior to 1911 and the first performances of the opera in other countries ; The Brussels version of the opera (Dupont and Lapissida) Theatre de la Monnaie, 1887 ; The surprising tale of Raoul Gunsbourg's version of the opera (Monte-Carlo, 1904) ; Synopsis of Raoul Gunsbourg's version of the epilogue (Monte-Carlo, 1904) ; The complete text of the epilogue in Calmann Levy 1904 ; Gunsbourg's collaborator, AndreBloch ; Albert Carre's 1911 revivial of Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Opera Comique assured the opera of its place in the repertoire / Michael Kaye ; Les contes d'Hoffmann on the stage: from Felsenstein to the present / George Loomis ; "Elle est sure la scene": arriving at and choosing a version / Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye -- Part II: The play and the libretto. Les contes d'Hoffmann: the complete 1851 Barbier and Carre play in prose and verse, with a documentation of the original incidental music by Joseph Ancessy / edited by Michael Kaye, English translation by Vincent Giroud ; The libretto of Les contes d'Hoffmann / English translation, edition, and annotations by Michael Kaye ; The E.T.A. Hoffmann of Barbier and Carre: annotations pertaining to the literary sources for the play and the opera / Michael Kaye and Charlie Richards -- Appendices. A. Comparative table of venues in the opera in early sources ; B. Descriptions of E.T.A. Hoffmann by Adolphe Francʹois Loeve-Veimars / English translation by Vincent Giroud ; C. Litte-known responses to E.T.A. Hoffmann prior to Barbier and Carre play ; Gaetano Donizetti's Le violon de Cremone d'Hoffmann : romance for voice, violin, and piano ; Juliette Godillon: A forgotten French composer inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann / Michael Kaye -- Select discography, filmography, and videography / Charlie Richards ; Index ; About the authors.
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