Les contes d'Hoffmann

• Composer: Jacques Offenbach
• Librettist: Jules Barbier
• Source: Les contes fantastiques d'Hoffmann, drama by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on the stories Der Sandmann, Rath Krespel, and Das verlorene Spiegelbild by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, and (loosely) on his life
• Synopsis / Argument:
  • Metropolitan Opera
• Libretto:
  • OperaGlass : Oeser Edition (as sung), with opéra-comique dialogue
  • Karen Mercedes' Website : Oeser Edition, with extra numbers from Choudens Edition
  • Kareol : Choudens Edition -- français / español -- in progress: Acts 1, 2, 4 only
  • Paris Censor's Libretto : a transcription of Acts 4 and 5 of the libretto submitted to the Paris censor for licensing of the original production, as reproduced in facsimile in Jacques Offenbachs Hoffmanns Erzählungen (Gabriele Brandstetter, Hrsg.), Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater, Band IX; Laaber-Verlag, 1988. (Reproduced with kind permission of the Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater der Universität Bayreuth.)
• Original Production Pictures