Amid Offenbach’s vast and mostly unknown catalog, tucked in between the voluminous operettas and the final unfinished masterpiece “The Tales of Hoffmann,” lie a handful of works like “Fantasio” that ...

I first came across Jacques Offenbach's opera Fantasio on German radio about 20 years ago. The recording they were playing was much older still and wasn't authentic in any way. But it was enough to ...

A work thought lost by Offenbach, "Fantasio" has been lovingly restored and performed for the first time onstage in Paris. Jacques Offenbach’s “Fantasio” is back on the opera stage in Paris, at the ...

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Gripping stuff? Not on a dramatic level. But it’s still a charming creation. Right from the start, Elder and the OAE’s period instruments lovingly revealed the delicacy of Offenbach’s orchestrations ...

British label Opera Rara has been recording neglected Offenbach pieces intermittently since the Seventies, but recent years have seen a closer engagement with the composer. Its latest project is ...

BARRIE KOSKY, INTENDANT DER KOMISCHEN OPER BERLIN BR-KLASSIK: Herr Kosky, würden Sie sagen, dass die Operetten Jaques Offenbachs hierzulande unterschätzt sind? Barrie Kosky: Ich glaube nicht, dass sie ...

Offenbach's Fantasio drew a blank with audiences at its Paris premiere in 1872. Its failure is frequently ascribed to bad timing. Based on a play by Alfred de Musset, whose work was unpopular at the ...

The origins of the opera lie in a play by Alfred de Musset dating from 1834, reworked by Alfred’s brother Paul for performance at the Comédie Française in 1866. The plot is distinctly odd. Elsbeth, ...