| English Touring Opera - Les Contes d'Hoffmann Reviews | 17 April 2024 |
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Les Contes d'HoffmannEnglish Touring OperaNo. of reviews: 14 | |
A fresh, young and modern feel to a classic genre |
 12 Nov 15 / Bath Chronicle |
ETO dishes up a fantastical Hoffmann |
| 2 Nov 15 / The Opera Critic |
Oliver Townsend's sets are wonderful |
| 29 Oct 15 / Opera Journal |
English Touring Opera has a winner of a show with The Tales of Hoffmann |
| 16 Oct 15 / Classical Source |
The Tales of Hoffmann is given coherence - and imbued with irony, wit and dramatic impact |
| 16 Oct 15 / Opera Today |
Fruitful wounds |
| 15 Oct 15 / The Critics' Circle |
Sam Furness made a beautifully convincing Hoffmann |
| 14 Oct 15 / Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews |
Weirdly ghoulish, hugely enjoyable |
| 13 Oct 15 / Telegraph |
Offenbach reimagined as an expressionist nightmare |
| 13 Oct 15 / The Guardian |
A reasonably slick production |
| 13 Oct 15 / Music OMH |
Offenbach’s fantastical opera is imaginatively realised in ETO’s visually striking and strongly cast production |
| 13 Oct 15 / The Stage |
ETO recreates the age of silent films in Tales of Hoffmann |
| 13 Oct 15 / Seen and Heard |
Sam Furness's solid tenor leads as Hoffmann |
| 12 Oct 15 / Broadway World |
Offenbach's episodic grand opera is a major undertaking for ETO |
| 11 Oct 15 / What's on Stage |
Production details
Cast
Furness, Domnich, Domnich, Domnich, Fyfe, Dawkins, Dawkins, Tunnicliffe, Mott, Mercer, Tunnicliffe, Ward
(c) Sunderland (d) Bonas
Performance dates
9, 10, 27 October, 6, 14 November 2015
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