OPERA REVIEW: Les Contes d'Hoffman
... Les Contes d'Hoffman Antwerp Offenbach, who always revised his work in the light of public performance, left this piece unfinished at his death. No one knows what form it may eventually have taken, but that has not discouraged musical meddling nor the mandarin pronouncements of musicologists, especially as autograph fragments pop up. Offenbach originally intended to use sung recit but, just ...