Featured artists:
Plácido Domingo, Georges Prêtre, Luciana Serra, Agnes Baltsa, Ileana Cotrubaș, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Covent Garden
Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves and recalls how each was thwarted by the evil influence of his rival. Plácido Domingo heads the cast as Hoffmann.