Offenbach, who also launched avant-garde innovations in stagecraft and design, played a leading role in cultural change, not only in music but also in literature, art, and politics, as he offered an ...

Admired yet underestimated: that was the fate of German-French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach, who died 140 ago. Here's a look back at his work. Dancers holding up high the seams of their frilly ...

When Jacques Offenbach began writing The Tales of Hoffmann, in 1877, he hoped the opera would boost his reputation to a whole new level. It did exactly that — but unfortunately, the composer never ...

BERLIN — The composer Jacques Offenbach captured the streets of mid-19th-century Paris like no other. But while he produced about 130 scores for the stage, his profile is often reduced to a spirited ...

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Offenbach's opera came too close to operetta under Nicolas Joel's direction. This was largely due to Ezio Frigerio's stage effects - an unnecessary steam engine in Spalanzani's salon, a superfluous ...

Barrie Kosky’s new production of “Orpheus in the Underworld” is, he says, a “fantasy world.” By Micaela Baranello Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld” is a parody of opera’s founding myth; a satire ...