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原文

Jacques Offenbach. Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Libretto. Book. Libretto. LIB. Jacques Offenbach.

译文

雅克·奥芬巴赫. 莱斯CONTES D'霍夫曼. 小册子. 书. 小册子. LIB. 雅克·奥芬巴赫.

原文

During a visit to America, Offenbach conceived the idea of the large-scale opera that was to be his masterpiece. By 1878, he had completed all three acts of Les Contes d'Hoffmannn in piano score and orchestrated the Prologue, but sadly he never lived to see it performed, and it was completed and produced by his friend Ernest Guiraud. The opera opens in a Nuremburg tavern, to which the scene returns at various points as Hoffmann, with his companion Nicklausse and his poetic muse, tells of a series of amorous adventures with, in turn, a mechanical doll, a Venetian courtesan, and a young opera singer. The scheme works sufficiently well to avoid discontinuity, though it could easily be regarded as a linked set of one-act operas with related themes -- deception, betrayal, and death. A thread of philosophical melancholy runs through Hoffmann's tales, strongly suggesting that Offenbach was a dispirited and disappointed man, who no longer wished to be known only as a purveyor of musical soufflés. This edition of the libretto is in both the original French and in an English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin.

译文

在访问期间，美国，奥芬巴赫的构思大型歌剧的想法，后来成为他的杰作. 1878年，他完成的Les Contes D'Hoffmannn的钢琴得分全部三个行为，并精心策划了序幕，但可悲的是，他从来没有活着看到它的表现，它已经完成，并通过他的朋友欧内斯特Guiraud的生产. 在纽伦堡小酒馆的戏打开，到现场返回的不同点是霍夫曼，他的同伴Nicklausse和他的缪斯诗意，讲述了一连串恋爱冒险用，反过来，一个机械娃娃，一个威尼斯名妓，和. 该方案充分运作很好地避免不连续性，尽管它很容易被视为一个链接一套独幕歌剧与相关的主题 - 欺骗，背叛和死亡. 哲学忧郁的运行，通过霍夫曼的故事一个线程，强烈暗示奥芬巴赫是沮丧和失望的人，谁不再希望只被称为音乐奶酥的传播者. 剧本的这个版本是无论是原法国和英国翻译露丝和马丁·托马斯.