Jacques Offenbach reached the zenith of his success during the decades of the 1860s, turning out four hits in rapid succession: La belle Hélène (1864), La vie parisienne (1866), La Grande-Duchesse de ...

Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann has a reputation for being an unwieldy, overblown work, but Damiano Michieletto’s new staging, that arrives in Bow Street via Opera Australia and La Fenice, ...

Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoe was acclaimed as a great success on its premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1867, but then seemed to run out of steam fairly quickly. The piece only ran for 32 ...

Jacques Offenbach was a master of entertaining music and the inventor of the operetta. His 200th birthday is being celebrated in 2019, and nowhere more than in the city of his birth, Cologne, Germany.