Join Liz Nolan as she visits the chronicles of this passionate and spectacular art.
Each week an opera, a story, a glimpse into the lives of the characters, both real and imaginary, who have shaped the form as we know it today.
“Nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life”- E.T.A. Hoffmann. It was a dying man’s gambit towards artistic immortality- an opera tracing the picaresque life and imaginings of a poet, in search of an ideal love.
Tales from the Opera keeps company with Jacques Offenbach and his final masterpiece, The Tales of Hoffmann.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 12 May, 7pm-8pm