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Jacques Offenbach. Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Libretto. Book. Libretto. LIB. Jacques Offenbach.

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Jacques Offenbach. Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Knjižica. Knjiga. Knjižica. LIB. Jacques Offenbach.

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During a visit to America, Offenbach conceived the idea of the large-scale opera that was to be his masterpiece. By 1878, he had completed all three acts of Les Contes d'Hoffmannn in piano score and orchestrated the Prologue, but sadly he never lived to see it performed, and it was completed and produced by his friend Ernest Guiraud. The opera opens in a Nuremburg tavern, to which the scene returns at various points as Hoffmann, with his companion Nicklausse and his poetic muse, tells of a series of amorous adventures with, in turn, a mechanical doll, a Venetian courtesan, and a young opera singer. The scheme works sufficiently well to avoid discontinuity, though it could easily be regarded as a linked set of one-act operas with related themes -- deception, betrayal, and death. A thread of philosophical melancholy runs through Hoffmann's tales, strongly suggesting that Offenbach was a dispirited and disappointed man, who no longer wished to be known only as a purveyor of musical soufflés. This edition of the libretto is in both the original French and in an English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin.

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Med obiskom v Ameriki, Offenbach zasnoval idejo o operi obsežne, da naj bi bilo njegovo mojstrovino. Z 1878, je zaključil vse tri akte Les contes d'Hoffmannn v klavirski rezultat in orkestrirano prologa, vendar na žalost ni nikoli dočakal opravlja, in je bila končana in produciral njegov prijatelj Ernest Guiraud. Opera se odpre v Nürnbergu gostilni, na katerega prizorišče vrača na različnih mestih, kot Hoffmann, s svojim spremljevalcem Nicklausse in pesniško muzo, pripoveduje o seriji ljubezenskih dogodivščinah z, v zameno, mehanska lutka, Beneška kurtizana, in . Sistem deluje dovolj dobro, da bi se izognili prekinitve, čeprav bi to lahko šteje kot povezan niz eno dejanje opere s sorodnimi temami - prevare, izdajstva in smrt. Nit filozofskih melanholije teče skozi pripovedi Hoffmann je močno nakazujejo, da je Offenbach potrt in razočaran človek, ki ne želi več biti znan le kot glavno vlogo glasbenih narastke. Ta izdaja libreta je tako v izvirni francoski in v angleškem prevodu Ruth in Thomas Martin.