Robert Carsen’s production of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann does a very decent job of presenting this rather muddled and overly long piece.  He sets it in and around a production of Don Giovanni in which Hoffmann’s current infatuation, Stella, is singing Donna Anna.  There are several quite clever DG references scattered around.  By and large it works and is one of the better “theatre in theatre” treatments that I’ve seen.

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