Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand comparison with the superlative Powell and Pressburger film (whose ideas it occasionally borrows). Olivier Py's baroque imagination, which sometimes leads him into self-indulgence and incoherence, is well suited to bringing out this opera's darkness and he does an excellent job
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as Hoffmann
AliveBirth date not on record.
as La Muse / Nicklausse
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Lindorf / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Andrès / Cochenille / Frantz / Pittichinaccio
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Olympia
AliveBorn: February 27, 1970
Age: 56
as Antonia
AliveBorn: August 1, 1973
Age: 53
Brig-Gils, Switzerland
as Giuletta
AliveBorn: January 10, 1969
Age: 57
Wattwil, Switzerland
as La voix de la mère d'Antonia
AliveBorn: November 6, 1943
Age: 82
Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
as Spalanzani
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Schlémil
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Luther
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Crespel
AliveBorn: November 25, 1951
Age: 74
Orbe, Vaud, Switzerland
as Nathanaël
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Hermann
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Stella
AliveBirth date not on record.