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
