Opera Cheat Sheet | Houston Public Media

Jacques Offenbach. Photo by Felix Nadar. Wikimedia Commons. In this OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly provide an overview to Jacques Offenbach’s 1881 opera. Based on three short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Offenbach’s last work (unfinished at the time of his death) tells the story of a poet, Hoffmann, who recounts the tales of the three women he loved and lost only to find his true love was much closer to home.... Read More