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The Sandman

story by Hoffmann

Also known as: “Der Sandmann”

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basis for “Coppélia”

In Coppélia
…story “Der Sandmann” (1816; “The Sandman”), a dark psychological fantasy concerning a man’s destructive infatuation for a lifelike mechanical doll. The same tale was later featured in Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, which preserved the tragic and surreal mood of the original. Delibes, however, presented French audiences with…
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