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With an original and novel first Act and other important changes
Book by Jules Barbier
Music by
J. Offenbach
New English version by Charles Alfred Byrne
As performed, for the first time in America at the
Manhattan Opera House,
under the direction of
Oscar Hammerstein.
English Version, 1907, by Steinway & Sons.
Charles E. Burden, Publisher, Steinway Hall
107-109 East 14th Street
New York.
Transcriber’s note: Both the English and the French texts are known to have a significant number of errors, misprints, and inconsistencies. They are here presented without correction.
New Version
of
Les Contesd’Hoffmann
(The Tales of Hoffman)
Opera in Four Acts
With an original and novel first Act and other important changes