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Offenbach passed away on October 5, 1880 before he completed his sole opera “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” This, his last work for the stage, will open the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-2025 simulcast season. It is based on a play about the writer and composer E.T.A. Hoffmann and as part of the score has one of the most famous barcarolles ever written. Jeffrey Engel will provide details about the background of Offenbach’s only opera (including who completed it!) and play some excerpts.
Mr. Engel will also present in October “La Vie Parisienne,” an operetta by ‘O de Cologne.’ It is full of memorable melodies, can cans, galops and waltzes making it one of the best of his over one hundred operettas.
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