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This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. and (and the rest of "The Archers") work their usual magic here. The opera dramatises the three great romances in the life of the poet-hero presented in a series of flashbacks. Hoffmanns tales depict the struggle between human love and the artists dedication to his work. Hoffmann loses each of the women he loves but gains instead poetic inspiration -- the ability to transform painful experiences into art.
Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nuremberg who is watching his latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major loves of his life. Each story forms a separate act of this magnificently staged opera. It is NOT just a film of a staged production but a truly filmic version of the Offenbach opera.
Moira Shearer
Stella
Robert Rounseville
Hoffmann
Ludmilla Tchérina
Giulietta
Ann Ayars
Antonia
Pamela Brown
Nicklaus
Léonide Massine
Spalanzani
Robert Helpmann
Lindorf
Frederick Ashton
Kleinsach
Mogens Wieth
Crespel
Lionel Harris
Pitichinaccio
Philip Leaver
Andrés
Meinhart Maur
Luther
Edmond Audran
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Thomas Beecham
Self - Conductor
Alan Carter
Casher (Act 1)
Elizabeth Christie
Corps de Ballet
John Ford
Nathanaël
Richard Golding
Hermann - Prologue and Epilogue
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