Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Tales of Hoffmann is an opera by Jacques Offenbach. The libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on the tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann. It was first performed in Paris in 1881. Tales of Hoffmann is part of the standard operatic repertoire. There are a several recordings of it, and it is regularly performed. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.