The Tales of Hoffmann - Les contes d'Hoffmann - is an Opera by Jacques Offenbach. It is not classed as an operetta. It is a drama set to music, that makes it opera.
This is from the operetta "The Merry Widow"
An operetta is a type of light opera. An opera-bouffe is a special type of operetta that was specifically introduced by Jacques Offenbach.
Tragedy
Opera is mostly 100% singing and operetta is roughly 70% sung and 30% spoken.
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The Tales of Hoffmann was created in 1881.
The duration of The Tales of Hoffmann - film - is 2.13 hours.
The Tales of Hoffmann - film - was created on 1951-04-04.
NBC Television Opera Theatre - 1950 Tales of Hoffmann was released on: USA: 1 May 1950
Music on 2 - 1965 Tales of Hoffmann was released on: USA: 13 December 1971 UK: 24 December 1971
The Tales of Hoffmann (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) by Offenbach is generally considered an opera, not an operetta.I say "generally" because the opera became successful after the death of Offenbach and its contents and even its structure are up for discussion. That means that the performance you might see in one city mught be very different from the one you'd see in another. So the "treatment" a theater gives to the work would either put it more in the operaetta camp or the opera camp.During his life, Offenbach was famous for his operettas which is why some folks treat Hoffmann more like an operetta than an opera.Offenbach himself considered it an opera; he purposely wrote it as such because he was afraid his operettas wouldn't last.
Seanair. has written: 'Struwwelpeter Tales of Hoffmann'
J. Offenbach has written: 'Tales of Hoffmann ... vocal score'
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