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2020-06-06 08:47:14
A fascinating conundrum - Les contes d'Hoffmann: with its troubled genesis & editorial confusion, Offenbach's final opera seems unique, yet it developed out ideas from the composer's lesser-known late period
[…] a tune from the overture to Offenbach's operetta A Journey to the Moon, and the Guilietta act acquired a new conclusion, a Septet based on the 'Barcarolle'. This crystallised in the 1907 Choudens score, and for much of the 20th century you had to perform this version because, if you dropped the Septet then there was no viable alternative conclusion to the Giulietta act, as Offenbach's original intentions were not known. Ilona Domnich as Stella - Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, English Touring Opera, 2015 © Richard Hubert Smith The manuscript of the opera as left by Offenbach seems to have been split into pieces, and the elements unused at the premiere dispersed so that the reconstruction of what Offenbach actually wrote has required significant detective work in the 20th and 21st centuries. A fire at the Opéra-Comique in 1887 meant that the performing parts were […]
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Clairvoyant Classical Music
2019-10-03 14:07:42
Rachmaninoff - Vocalise - performed by Ilona Domnich, Soprano
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