"With this hugely enjoyable production of Offenbach’s problematic masterpiece, English Touring Opera hits the jackpot…an evening rich in musical and theatrical pleasure..the staging is full of surreal invention, responsive to all the ambiguities of the scenario and often very witty..this is ETO at its best..."

"...blending the comic and the sinister, Offenbach’s fantastical opera is imaginatively realised in ETO’s visually striking and strongly cast production…the doll Olympia in the first of Hoffmann’s disastrous love stories is as cleverly done as you will ever see it."

"A phantasmagoria of cinematic references…it is a tribute to Bonas’ direction that all these influences come together so brilliantly and subversively; a multi-layered drama of identity and obsession disguised as terrific fun."