Tour de force production has paranormal realms, a huge cast and possibly the highest notes ever heard in the Royal Opera House
The joy of fantasy is that it can mean so many things to so many people. In Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, a drunken poet tells the stories of three loves of his life. Are the three women distinct characters, different sides of a single woman, or his imaginary ideal of the eternal feminine? Step forward Damiano Michieletto, director of the Royal Opera’s new production.
Flórez sings outstandingly well, giving Offenbach’s music a lightness of touch with exquisite detailing and clear words, and makes a decent fist of ageing from schoolboy in short trousers to old, bewhiskered sot. As the mechanical doll Olympia, Olga Pudova dazzles with pinpoint coloratura, throwing in what could be the highest notes ever heard in the Royal Opera House.
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