Fellow devotees,

My article on this season’s Met revival of Les contes d’Hoffmann, originally scheduled for today, will be published on Monday, Oct. 28. I’ll be discussing the life and career of Jacques Offenbach; the music and dramaturgy of the opera itself; the choices to be made amongst the materials left at the time of the composer’s death, as sorted through by latterday scholarship; and all these in reference to the production and performances as seen and heard on Oct. 1.

CLO