Offenbach’s The Tales Of Hoffmann takes a trip into the memory of the titular poet, as he remember three of his great passions.

In The Tales Of Hoffmann, the poet, hopelessly besotted with a flighty prima donna, drunkenly recalls the three loves of his life: Olympia, a mechanical doll; Antonia, a sick young singer; and Giulietta, a Venetian whore who stole his reflection and his soul.

Based upon the fantastical tales of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, Offenbach’s operatic swansong, The Tales Of Hoffmann, boasts such hit numbers as the clockwork-driven Doll’s Song and the seductively swooning Barcarolle.

With its phantasmagorical blurring of dreams and reality, The Tales Of Hoffmann is perfectly suited to the imagination of director Richard Jones, back at English National Opera after his Olivier Award-nominated Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in 2008.

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