This is perhaps the key to the Poet 's love drawbacks during the four acts of the Tales, It is a splendid musical conclusion anyway even if it sounds a bit too easy to think we, human beings and poets in particular are enhanced by love, even more by sorrows. Offenbach is under the influence of Werther!
The choral is grandiose and it is wonderful to listen to Karine Deshayes from the Met! (Link to the opera streaming from the Met 2015-03-5)
This is the ending I prefer, the last tunes for the Muse !
Link
"Les cendres de ton coeur
réchauffent ton génie
dans la sérénité
souris à tes douleurs!
La Muse apaisera
ta souffrance bénie,
ta souffrance, ta souffrance bénie...
Then the choral which is a moving conclusion:
Ah! Ah! On est grand par l'amour
et plus grand par les pleurs,
on est grand par l'amour
et plus grand par les pleurs,
on est grand, très grand
par les pleurs, les pleurs!
Then the Muse adds:
On est grand très grand par l'amour
et plus grand par les pleurs
par les pleurs!
And then Lindorf's voice echoes this conclusion before the curtain falls.
I love Les Contes d'Hoffmann and with Karine Deshayes in Nicklausse and the Muse it is a real treasure to have the streaming now from the Met Opera.
Les Contes d'Hoffmann, j. Offenbach, J.Barbier.
Cast:
Conductor: James Levine
Olympia: Audrey Luna
Antonia/Stella: Susanna Phillips
The Muse/Nicklausse: Karine Deshayes
Hoffmann/ Matthew Polenzani
Four villains: Laurent Naouri
Production: Bartlett Sher
Costume designer; Catherine Zuber
Lghting designer:Ian F. Ingalls
Choreographer: Dou Dou Huang
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