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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

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