The Metropolitan Opera: The Tales of Hoffmann
Plot: After a celebrated career as a composer of lighthearted operetta, Jacques Offenbach turned his hand to more serious fare—only to die before his one true opera was completed. That work, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, was based on a play that strung together a collection of stories by E

Benjamin Bernheim
Erin Morley
Pretty Yende
Clémentine Margaine
Christian van Horn
Aaron Blake
Bartlett Sher
Jules Barbier
Jacques Offenbach
Catherine Zuber
James F. Ingalls