

06/10/2008
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

Marc Laho
as Hoffmann

Stella Doufexis
as La Muse / Nicklausse

Nicolas Cavallier
as Lindorf / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto

Eric Huchet
as Andrès / Cochenille / Frantz / Pittichinaccio

Patricia Petibon
as Olympia

Rachel Harnisch
as Antonia

Maria Riccarda Wesseling
as Giuletta

Nadine Denize
as La voix de la mère d'Antonia

Francisco Vas
as Spalanzani

Bernard Deletré
as Schlémil

René Schirrer
as Luther

Gilles Cachemaille
as Crespel

Bisser Terziyski
as Nathanaël

Romaric Braun
as Hermann

Delphine Beaulieu
as Stella
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