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Foreward / Plácido Domingo ; Introduction ; Acknowledgments ; Chronology

Part I: Essays. The awareness and influence of E.T.A. Hoffmann in France before Les contes d'Hoffmann / Vincent Giroud ; The librettists of Les contes d'Hoffmann / Vincent Giroud ; "Hallucinations in the tavern": Barbier's scenario of the play / Micahel Kaye ; The Barbier and Carré play and its receiption / Michael Kaye ; The birth of the opera : The revision for the Théatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin (1866) ; Summary of the extant fragments of the revision for the Théatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin ; Hector Salomon: Le rêve d'Hoffmann (1875-1881) ; The unrealized Opéra-féerie version of Les contes d'Hoffmann / Michael Kaye ; Les contes d'Hoffmann: from play to opera libretto / Charles Richards ; Barbier as versifier / Vincent Giroud ; Hoffmann after Offenbach : Summary of performances at the Opéra Comique prior to 1911 and the first performances of the opera in other countries ; The Brussels version of the opera (Dupont and Lapissida) Théâtre de la Monnaie, 1887 ; The surprising tale of Raoul Gunsbourg's version of the opera (Monte-Carlo, 1904) ; Synopsis of Raoul Gunsbourg's version of the epilogue (Monte-Carlo, 1904) ; The complete text of the épilogue in Calmann Lévy 1904 ; Gunsbourg's collaborator, AndréBloch ; Albert Carré's 1911 revivial of Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Opéra Comique assured the opera of its place in the repertoire / Michael Kaye ; Les contes d'Hoffmann on the stage: from Felsenstein to the present / George Loomis ; "Elle est sure la scène": arriving at and choosing a version / Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye

Part II: The play and the libretto. Les contes d'Hoffmann: the complete 1851 Barbier and Carré play in prose and verse, with a documentation of the original incidental music by Joseph Ancessy / edited by Michael Kaye, English translation by Vincent Giroud ; The libretto of Les contes d'Hoffmann / English translation, edition, and annotations by Michael Kaye ; The E.T.A. Hoffmann of Barbier and Carré: annotations pertaining to the literary sources for the play and the opera / Michael Kaye and Charlie Richards

Appendices. A. Comparative table of venues in the opera in early sources ; B. Descriptions of E.T.A. Hoffmann by Adolphe François Loève-Veimars / English translation by Vincent Giroud ; C. Litte-known responses to E.T.A. Hoffmann prior to Barbier and Carré play ; Gaetano Donizetti's Le violon de Crémone d'Hoffmann : romance for voice, violin, and piano ; Juliette Godillon: A forgotten French composer inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann / Michael Kaye

Select discography, filmography, and videography / Charlie Richards ; Index ; About the authors.