The German-French composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) can be considered the father of the operetta because his lighthearted works conquered the world and found imitators everywhere. Although he created a typically French musical idiom, Jacques,...

This video presents a French production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann using the newly-published critical edition by musicologist Michael Kaye. Kaye spent several years studying more than a thousand pages of previously unknown manuscript sources for the opera, which has been a magnet for...

After a long sojourn in the "light music" ghetto, Jacques Offenbach is at last obtaining recognition in "serious" music circles as a composer worthy of respect, and, therefore, of genuine study. A thematic catalogue of his works (over six hundred) is to be...