That's called an opera by French composer Jacques Offenbach German origin "Tales of Hoffmann", believing that this work brings misfortune ...
As you know, stories that Hoffmann wrote, were not at all funny.They often attended death, black magic and different hell ... Initially Offenbach wanted to dedicate his new creation to a friend and assistant of theatrical figures Vilmessanu.But he died suddenly.True, he was old and decrepit ... Then the composer wrote a dedication to his son Auguste.And that was not the tenant.But this is no surprise: Auguste often sick ...
While working on opera Offenbach health at the beginning of the take, too, like "Tales" sucked him all the forces ... In October 1880 the composer died.
premiere of "Tales" was held in Paris on 10 February 1881 and was a great success.However, immediately after that those who had to do with the creation of the opera, began to pursue some kind of rock.A friend and colleague of Offenbach Ernest Guiraud, who had to finish the score, and deal with its orchestration, broke his leg, playwrights Meilhac and Halevy, who wrote the text of the opera, became seriously ill, and Carvalho, director of the theater "Opera Comique", first put the "Tales", a dislocated armunsuccessfully holding theatrical staircase railing ...
At the end of 1881 "Tales" played in Vienna Ringteatre.They also created a furore among the public, but on the second presentation in the theater happen to the fire, in which several people were killed and hundreds injured in a stampede.Himself Ringteatr burned to the ground.Immediately remembered the staging of Hoffmann's "Undine" (the famous writer was concurrently also a musician and composer), during which burned the Berlin Theatre Royal ... Time passed and in 1887 caught fire building "Opera Comique", first put the "Tales"...
now "Tales of Hoffmann" gained notoriety.They were called "diabolical opera", stopped to put in theaters, believing that the product brings bad luck ... Only in 1905 it fell back to the stage.But it turned out that the original score composed by Offenbach, had disappeared.We decided that she, too, was burned in the fire in the "Opera Comique".
However mystic continued.In 70 years at the German Film Week demonstrated adaptation of "Tales."But the film is suddenly broken, and restore it and failed ... not once failed and television production of the opera, where the party takes Hoffmann Placido Domingo.
But the summer of 2004 suddenly found a score of "The Tales of Hoffmann," thought long lost.She calmly waited for the hour in the library of the Paris Opera.Since then, the production of "diabolical opera" do without any excesses.Apparently, a mysterious curse ceased to act ...
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