Item #28807 [Les Contes d'Hoffmann]. Tales of Hoffmann ... Opera Fantastique In Three Acts with a Prologue and Epilogue. French Words by Jules Barbier. English Words by Edward Agate ... Vocal Score ... Price 20/- nett. Pianoforte Solo ... 5/- ". [Piano-vocal score]. Jacques OFFENBACH.
[Les Contes d'Hoffmann]. Tales of Hoffmann ... Opera Fantastique In Three Acts with a Prologue and Epilogue. French Words by Jules Barbier. English Words by Edward Agate ... Vocal Score ... Price 20/- nett. Pianoforte Solo ... 5/- ". [Piano-vocal score]

[Les Contes d'Hoffmann]. Tales of Hoffmann ... Opera Fantastique In Three Acts with a Prologue and Epilogue. French Words by Jules Barbier. English Words by Edward Agate ... Vocal Score ... Price 20/- nett. Pianoforte Solo ... 5/- ". [Piano-vocal score]

London: J. B. Cramer [PN J. B. C. & Co. 11657], [ca. 1915].

Quarto. Red cloth0-backed gray stiff printed wrappers. 1f. (recto title, verso cast list), 1f. (recto argument, verso contents), 315, [i] (publisher's catalogue) pp. Text in English and French. Publisher's advertisement to verso of lower wrapper.

Occasional performance markings in pencil.

Titling to spine in black ink; handstamp to upper margin of upper board. Some signatures split; handstamp to upper margin of title.

Fifth version.

Les contes d’Hoffmann, to a libretto by J. Barbier completed by Guirard, was first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881.

"[Offenbach] was, with Johann Strauss (ii), one of the two composers of outstanding significance in popular music of the 19th century and the composer of some of the most exhilaratingly gay and tuneful music ever written. His opera Les contes d’Hoffmann has retained a place in the international repertory ... Moreover, it was through the success of Offenbach’s works abroad that operetta became an established international genre, producing outstanding national exponents in Strauss, Sullivan and Lehár and evolving into the 20th-century musical." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online.

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