INO has Tales to tell nationwide

Claudia Boyle has the lead role in Irish National Opera’s The Tales of Hoffmann

After a much-lauded staging of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the recent Galway Arts Festival, the Irish National Opera (INO) is quickly into another exciting project.

This time it’s a chamber music version of Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, an operatic take on the weird and wonderful Gothic world of the German writer ETA Hoffmann, who fashioned operetta into an international art form and paved the way for the likes of Lehar ...