Opéra Bastille, Paris, presents the ballet 'Les Contes D'hoffmann' which will run from October 31 to November 27, 2016.The opera, in a prologue of three acts and an epilogue, was created in 1881 by Jacques Offenbach with a libretto by Jules Barbier. It is essentially an adaptation of three tales crafted by E.T.A. Hoffmann, and a bit of Goethe's Faust, portraying the German poet as both a narrator and hero …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 09:11AM on September 30, 2016