Donning a black hat and cape, the baritone Laurent Naouri contorts and cackles his way through "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" as the devilish nemesis of the tortured poet Hoffmann. Naouri is a near-constant presence in the Metropolitan Opera's three-and-a-half hour production, which runs from bubble-gum animation to cold minimalism as a parade a colorfully-coiffed personages cross the stage. "Mostly, I'm an emanation of the Hoffmann psyche, of a destructive part of him," Naouri told AFP. Naouri has played the role in Jacques Offenbach's masterpiece for nearly 20 years, including at other major opera houses, but this is his first Hoffmann in New York.
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