Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Production of the Salzuberger Festspiele 2024. French director Mariame Clément will explore the relationship between art and real life by linking the three “tales” with individual stages of Hoffmann's biography as an artist in her production. This has decisive consequences for the female characters, or rather for the view of the images that Hoffmann projects onto Stella: the angelic but emotionally cold Olympia, who turns out to be a doll;
Cast
Benjamin Bernheim
Hoffmann
Kathryn Lewek
Stella/Olympia/Antonia/Giullietta
Christian van Horn
Lindorf/Coppelius/Dr. Miracle/Dapertutto
Kate Lindsey
The Muse/Nicolausse
Marc Mauillon
Andres/Cochenille/Frantz/Pitichinaccio
Géraldine Chauvet
Voice of the Mother
Michael Laurenz
Spalanzani
Jérôme Varnier
Crespel/Luther
Philippe-Nicolas Martin
Hermann/Peter Schlemihl
Marc Minkowski
Conductor