Jules Barbier Trailers
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Most Popular Jules Barbier Trailers
Total trailers found: 40
Gounod Faust Trailer (2016)
01 August 2016
Salzburg Festival’s first-ever performance of Charles Gounod´s most famous and most performed opera! Internationally-acclaimed tenor Piotr Beczala triumphs in the title role as soul-selling philosopher Faust: “Piotr Beczala is a world-Faust” (Kurier) and “The well-deserved crown goes to a perfectly-cast Piotr Beczala” (Abendzeitung).
Les Contes d'Hoffmann Trailer (1988)
02 March 1988
Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fairy-tale magic.
Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel Trailer (2002)
01 October 2002
Giacomo Meyerbeer's pastoral opera,based on a Breton tale, is the tale of DINORAH who has gone mad because her bridegroom Hoël has disappeared during their wedding.
Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (2019)
13 April 2019
In Luther's beer-cellar, lusty singing extols the virtues of beer and wine. For this evening, the Muse decides to deflect the poet Hoffmann's attention from amorous escapades, so that he will devote himself entirely to his art.
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann Trailer (2009)
29 December 2009
Live from the Metropolitan Opera 19 December 2009.
The Tales of Hoffman - National Opera Company (INBAL) Trailer (2021)
21 February 2021
Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto in French by Jules Barbier (1825-1901), based on a work that Barbier himself and Michel Carré (1821-1872) had written based on stories by E.
Hamlet Trailer (2004)
06 September 2004
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (2016)
15 November 2016
This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta.
The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (1923)
06 April 1923
"The Tales of Hoffmann" - The story of the poet Hoffmann, who falls in love with a mechanical doll, loses his mirror image in Venice and finally liberates his lover from the clutches of a sinister doctor.
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Bregenz Festival) Trailer (2015)
23 July 2015
Bregenzs Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before. The New York Times praised the thoughtfulness and creativity of Stefan Herheims new production, devised by the director as a search for ones own self in a sparkling drag show.
Faust Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
1995 recorded performance of Charles Gounod's Faust at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, with conductor John Nelson.
Thomas: Hamlet Trailer (2016)
06 October 2016
The famous story of Hamlet and Ophelia is played out between the opposite poles of real and feigned madness, love and avenge.
Faust Trailer (1985)
01 June 1985
In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite from an eternity in Hell.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette Trailer (2007)
15 December 2007
The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna playing the star-crossed young couple.
Faust Trailer (2004)
19 June 2004
David McVicar's spectacular production of Charles Gounod’s Faust, featuring a divine cast of opera’s superstars: Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside and Sophie Koch – recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 19 June 2004.
Charles Gounod: Faust @ Bavarian State Opera, Munich Trailer (2026)
08 February 2026
Gounod's Faust at the Bavarian State Opera: Jonathan Tetelman plays Faust, the scholar who makes a pact with Mephistopheles (Kyle Ketelsen) before seducing Marguerite (Olga Kulchynska).
Gounod: Romeo et Juliette Trailer (1994)
16 September 1994
Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired since its first performance at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, in 1867.
Les Contes d'Hoffmann Trailer (1981)
01 December 1981
Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves - the doll-like Olympia, the high-class courtesan Giulietta, and the ambitious but delicate Antonia - and recalls how each was thwarted by the evil influence of his rival.
Orphée aux Enfers Trailer (1997)
01 May 1997
Orphée aux Enfers, Offenbach's riotous parody of the dissipations of French life in the Second Empire, fairly gallops past in this 1997 Herbert Wernicke production staged at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
Les Contes d'Hoffmann Trailer (2006)
15 May 2006
Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus creates a climactic kaleidoscope of deep and convincing emotions.
Hoffmanns Erzählungen Trailer (2011)
30 October 2011
Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach that combines three short stories by E.
Les Contes d'Hoffmann Trailer (2004)
01 August 2004
Live peformance from the Sferisterio Opera Festival, August 2004. Our edition has an Italian cast of exceptional quality, in which stand out the amazing voice of Desirée Rancatore, the extraordinary artistry of Ruggiero Raimondi and the fascinating direction of Pier Luigi Pizzi, one of today's most creative directors.
The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (2016)
09 July 2016
In a poet's feverish imagination, the staging of Don Giovanni sets him off on a frenzied journey into nightmarish worlds.
The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (1951)
04 April 1951
A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
Les Contes d'Hoffmann Trailer (2003)
22 November 2003
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Les Contes D'Hoffmann Trailer (2008)
06 October 2008
Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand comparison with the superlative Powell and Pressburger film (whose ideas it occasionally borrows).
Gounod: Faust Trailer (2011)
10 December 2011
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is riveting as the title character of Gounod’s popular opera, seen in this Live in HD presentation of Des McAnuff’s thrilling 2011 production that places the mythical and timeless story in an early 20th-century setting.
The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo et Juliette Trailer (2017)
21 January 2017
Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation.
The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (2025)
12 July 2025
Hoffmann, the poet, is torn between art and life, love and fantasy, dream and reality. His love for Stella, the singer, remains unrequited, and he takes refuge in alcohol and the world of his imagination.
The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet Trailer (2010)
27 March 2010
After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a sensational evening in the theater Thomas’s Hamlet can be.
Faust – Opéra de Lille Trailer (2025)
12 September 2025
Few operas have enjoyed such an enviable fate as Gounod's Faust. Well received at its premiere, followed by international success, which still makes it the most performed French opera in the world today, just behind Carmen.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (2015)
31 January 2015
New tenor star Vittorio Grigolo takes on the title role in Offenbach’s fantastical opera, giving a tour-de-force performance as the tortured poet unlucky in love.
Faust - Salzburg Festival Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
The Salzburg Festival presents one of Charles Gounod's most well-loved opera: Faust, in a new production staged by Reinhard von der Thannen, conducted by Alejo Pérez and starring Piotr Beczala.
The Tales of Hoffmann - Teatro Regio di Parma, 1988 Trailer (1988)
12 February 1988
"Despite the multitude of characters and situations, the plot is simple: the eternal flow of life. It is based on Les contes fantastiques d’Hoffmann, a play by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, who were inspired by some of the stories of the German E.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (2024)
05 October 2024
After a celebrated career as a composer of lighthearted operetta, Jacques Offenbach turned his hand to more serious fare—only to die before his one true opera was completed.
Les contes d'Hoffmann - Teatro alla Scalla Trailer (1996)
17 November 1996
Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffman) shown in the Teatro alla Scala
Hamlet - Teatro Regio Torino Trailer (2025)
19 September 2025
With its lively dances, ghost scenes and touching arias, Hamlet was Ambroise Thomas’s single great success of the Paris Opera, remaining in its repertoire for decades after the 1868 premiere.
Faust - Wiener Staatsoper Trailer (2021)
09 May 2021
Méphistophélès, less an intellectual "principle of negation" than a devilishly attractive magician, draws his attention to Marguerite - and Faust is delighted.
