
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

as Hoffmann

as La Muse / Nicklausse

as Lindorf / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto

as Andrès / Cochenille / Frantz / Pittichinaccio

as Olympia

as Antonia

as Giuletta

as La voix de la mère d'Antonia

as Spalanzani

as Schlémil

as Luther

as Crespel

as Nathanaël

as Hermann

as Stella