'Les Contes D'Hoffmann' by De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam
From June 3, the Dutch National Opera will open its curtains for its production of Jacques Offenbach's "Les contes d'Hoffmann." The enchanting opera will be staged over three hours and 40 minutes, in an extravagant production at the Amsterdam venue."Les contes d'Hoffmann is an 'opera fantastique' in which the romantic poet Hoffmann remembers the important women of his life in a drunken stupor. Reality and fantasy run…