[PW] "Tales of Hoffmann" play?

[Simon Cauchi]

On 28/04/2008, at 11:38 AM, Nina Gilbert wrote:

> I've found references to a play that I don't think exists.  Can 
> someone verify?
>
> Namely:  Jacques Offenbach's opera _Les contes d'Hoffmann_ has a 
> libretto by Jules
> Barbier and Michel Carré.  Some sources say it's based on a play of the
> same name by the same authors.

There's no mention of any play in my edition of The New Kobbé's Opera 
Book. Just of a libretto by Barbier and Carré.