CHAPTER ONE: Telling the Tales.

Chapter One of the book "Mad Loves: Women & Music in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann," by Heather Hadlock is presented. It explores how librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carré included the author of the opera "Les Contes d'Hoffmann," Jacques Offenbach, to the cast of charaters. It highlights the story of the opera, in which Hoffmann focus on the lines between waking life and dreaming life. It also outlines the opera's characters.