[PW] "Tales of Hoffmann" play? - formatting probs

[Kevin O'Kelly]

Thanks--good to know!

Phalbe Henriksen <phenriksen at cox.net> wrote: If you use MS products, copy it to "Notepad," 
which will strip it of all its formatting. Then 
copy the copy in "Notepad" to your e-mail.

(Or, if you used Eudora for your e-mail, it would 
have done it for you. I can e-mail messages to 
myself through Eudora and get the same effect.)

Phalbe Henriksen ~ back from oblivion


At 07:58 PM 4/27/2008, you wrote:
>Nina:
>
>I hope the formatting held together in your inbox better than  it did in mine!
>
>Kevin O'Kelly  wrote: Nina:
>
>Here's the entry for the play in the French National Library:
>
>Type 
>document       Livre 
>       Auteur(s)                        Barbier 
>            ,       Jules 
>(1825 1901)          , 
>Auteur                                 Auteur 
>secondaire 
>Carré            , 
>Michel                               (1822 
>1872)                                      , Auteur
> 
>Titre 
>Les  contes 
>d'Hoffmann 
>[Texte 
>imprimé] 
>: drame fantastique en cinq 
>actes 
>/ par MM. Jules Barbier et Michel 
>Carré 
>Langue                français
> 
>Titres 
>liés 
>(L' Ombre de 
>Molière) 
>Paris 
>1847 
>(36 p.)
> 
>Publication 
>Paris 
>: 
>s.n. 
>, 18 51
>                                      Pays 
>         France 
> Description                       88 p.   18 cm
>
>Nina Gilbert  wrote:
>
>Dear Wombats,
>
>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.  If so, shouldn't I be able to find
>evidence of that play somewhere?  I'm thinking maybe those sources are
>wrong.  After all, I can find a Turkish translation that says the opera
>is by Giuseppe Verdi, and that's obviously a wrong source.  I can't
>find a straight play called *anything* by Barbier and Carré, let alone
>_The Tales of Hoffmann_.
>
>I've looked at WorldCat and LOC and a few other searches, and can't
>find anything that convinces me that Barbier and Carré wrote a play
>before making it into a libretto.  I've also 
>looked at articles (grovemusic.com) about both 
>of them that include lists of works.
>
>The premise of the opera is that E. T. A. Hoffmann, who sits around
>getting drunk in the prologue and epilogue, actually lived through
>three of his stories, which form the three central acts of the opera.
>
>I have confirmed that Hoffmann was indeed a drunk.
>
>Anyway, was it ever a play?
>
>Deadline:  if I don't have this information by 
>Tuesday, April 29, I'll turn in my article 
>without it.  Not hugely urgent, and my deadline 
>for my whole project if April 30.
>
>Thank you!
>
>Nina Gilbert
>Education and Community Programs Consultant, Boston Lyric Opera
>[watch this space! that title disappears Thursday]
>  ------------------------------------------------
>Nina Gilbert
>ninagilbert at yahoo.com
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