Jacques Offenbach

The Barcarole is sung at the beginning of the second act of Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffman. Hoffman tells the story of his affair with the Venetian courtesan Giulietta. The place of acting is...

La Barcarola se canta al principio del segundo acto de la ópera de Offenbach Les contes d'Hoffman. Hoffman cuenta la historia de su romance con la cortesana veneciana Giulietta. El lugar de actuación...

The Barcarole is sung at the beginning of the second act of Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffman. Hoffman tells the story of his affair with the Venetian courtesan Giulietta. The place of acting is...

La Barcarola se canta al principio del segundo acto de la ópera de Offenbach Les contes d'Hoffman. Hoffman cuenta la historia de su romance con la cortesana veneciana Giulietta. El lugar de actuación...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera 'Les contes d'Hoffman', but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

Al final de su vida, Offenbach compuso su ópera "Les contes d'Hoffman", pero desgraciadamente no pudo terminarla. El argumento cuenta la historia del poeta Hoffmann narrando tres de sus aventuras amor...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera "Les contes d'Hoffman", but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

Al final de su vida, Offenbach compuso su ópera "Les contes d'Hoffman", pero desgraciadamente no pudo terminarla. El argumento cuenta la historia del poeta Hoffmann relatando tres de sus aventuras amo...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera 'Les contes d´Hoffman', but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

Al final de su vida, Offenbach compuso su ópera "Les contes d'Hoffman", pero desgraciadamente no pudo terminarla. El argumento cuenta la historia del poeta Hoffmann que narra tres de sus aventuras amo...

Al final de su vida, Offenbach compuso su ópera "Les contes d'Hoffman", pero desgraciadamente no pudo terminarla. El argumento cuenta la historia del poeta Hoffmann que narra tres de sus aventuras amo...

In 1868 Jacques Offenbach's opéra bouffe 'La Périchole' was premiered in Paris. The title character of this three act opera is based on Micaela Villegas, a beloved 18th century Peruvian entertainer an...

En 1868 se estrenó en París la ópera bufa "La Périchole", de Jacques Offenbach. El personaje que da título a esta ópera en tres actos está basado en Micaela Villegas, una querida animadora peruana del...

En 1868 se estrenó en París la ópera bufa "La Périchole", de Jacques Offenbach. El personaje que da título a esta ópera en tres actos está basado en Micaela Villegas, una querida animadora peruana del...

Al final de su vida, Offenbach compuso su ópera "Les contes d'Hoffman", pero desgraciadamente no pudo terminarla. El argumento cuenta la historia del poeta Hoffmann narrando tres de sus aventuras amor...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera 'Les contes d´Hoffman', but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

Al final de su vida, Offenbach compuso su ópera "Les contes d'Hoffman", pero desgraciadamente no pudo terminarla. El argumento cuenta la historia del poeta Hoffmann narrando tres de sus aventuras amor...

In 1866 Offenbach composed 'La vie parisienne', an opéra bouffe, or operetta with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This work was Offenbach's first full-length piece to portray contempor...

En 1866, Offenbach compuso "La vie parisienne", una opéra bouffe u opereta con libreto de Henri Meilhac y Ludovic Halévy. Esta obra fue la primera pieza completa de Offenbach que retrataba la vida par...

En 1866, Offenbach compuso "La vie parisienne", una opéra bouffe u opereta con libreto de Henri Meilhac y Ludovic Halévy. Esta obra fue la primera pieza completa de Offenbach que retrataba la vida par...

Jacques Offenbach was born in 1819 in Cologne, Germany, but as a child he moved to Paris where he received a thorough musical education. In his operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, Offenbach parodies t...

Offenbach (1819 - 1880), who was born in Germany, moved to Paris when he was a teenage boy and remained there for much of his life. He became especially famous as a composer of numerous operettas. and...

The famous Barcarolle from Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann opens the fourth act of the opera, which takes place in Venice. For this reason Offenbach chose a barcarolle - a Venetian gondolier song wi...