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Les contes d'Hoffmann

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Original – Prologue (or less likely epilogue - they take place on the same set) from the 1881 première of Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann

Reason

A very nice coloured lithograph from the opera's première.

Articles in which this image appears

The Tales of Hoffmann

FP category for this image

WP:FP/THEATRE

Creator

Pierre-Auguste Lamy (? seems highly likely, given we know he signed his works A. Lamy - see his category on Commons and the A's and Y's in a couple of his known signatures are very similar. Just slightly different enough to leave doubt); restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:18, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
• Support Does the time on the clock (five to seven) give any clue if it is the prologue or epilogue? Belle (talk) 08:19, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
  • As I understand it, the clock gives some evidence for it being prologue, but it's not definite. I'm going with what I was told at WT:OPERA#Les contes d'Hoffmann Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:20, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:22, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
• Support, oh, and lady in red... Brandmeister^talk 12:37, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
• Support -- DreamSparrow ^Chat 18:21, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:50, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Yann (talk) 22:05, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Pierre-Auguste Lamy (?) - Les contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach, prologue.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:18, 7 September 2015 (UTC)