Aboutall zones, 16/9 PCM stereo, DTS 5.1Subtitles: Fr, En, Ger, Spa197 minutesBonus: After the show / interview with Oliver Py.Offenbach's masterpiece, based on three stories by the German author E.T.A. Hoffmann, is both a three-act opera and a trilogy of taut, individual dramas, all rolled into one.This Geneva production from 2002 features baritone Marc Laho in the tour-de-force triple villain roles, with three different standout sopranos as the tales' three heroines. French producer Olivier Py caused an uproar among Geneva operagoers with a staging of Tales of Hoffmann that features full-frontal male and female nudity and simulated on-stage lesbian and heterosexual sex.Audiences were left 'gasping, giggling or reduced to stunned silence' by the production, which interprets the popular opera as an indictment of capitalist society. Py adds several simulated sex acts, including one between the poet Hoffman and the life-sized doll Olympia as she sings her main aria. Soprano Patricia Petitbon is a major tour de force as she sings Olympia wearing only a transparent body stocking in a Venetian bordello.
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Aboutall zones, 16/9 PCM stereo, DTS 5.1Subtitles: Fr, En, Ger, Spa197 minutesBonus: After the show / interview with Oliver Py.Offenbach's masterpiece, based on three stories by the German author E.T.A. Hoffmann, is both a three-act opera and a trilogy of taut, individual dramas, all rolled into one.This Geneva production from 2002 features baritone Marc Laho in the tour-de-force triple villain roles, with three different standout sopranos as the tales' three heroines. French producer Olivier Py caused an uproar among Geneva operagoers with a staging of Tales of Hoffmann that features full-frontal male and female nudity and simulated on-stage lesbian and heterosexual sex.Audiences were left 'gasping, giggling or reduced to stunned silence' by the production, which interprets the popular opera as an indictment of capitalist society. Py adds several simulated sex acts, including one between the poet Hoffman and the life-sized doll Olympia as she sings her main aria. Soprano Patricia Petitbon is a major tour de force as she sings Olympia wearing only a transparent body stocking in a Venetian bordello.
Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann by Natalie Dessay. 3.5 out of 5 stars 13. Audio CD More Buying Choices $52.11 (1 new offer). Directed by: Olivier Py and Philippe Beziat Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann. 3.4 out of 5 stars 16. DVD More Buying Choices. Mar 11, 2013 Olivier Py has created a macabre, expressionistic, morbide and nightmarish dark vision of Les Contes d´Hoffmann. The eternal darkness at Pigalle. The set consists of interchanging frames, blinking neon lights, plenty of grotesque naked figures, black masked men, skeletons, naked body suits (Olympia), coffins with dead bodies (Antonia and her.