Who composed the music for the opera The Tales of Hoffman?
Grammy Award for Video of the Year and later incorporated it into the "montage of music and gags" called "Elephant Parts" after starting the company Pacific Arts Video Records. In 1985, "Elephant Parts" was adapted into a seven-episode summer series on NBC titled "Michael Nesmith in Television Parts". Nominees for the 25th Grammy Awards included: Elton John for "Visions: Elton John", Olivia Newton-John for "Olivia Physical", the rock band The Tubes for "The Tubes Video", a recording of Jacques Offenbach's opera "The Tales of Hoffman" by the Royal Opera conducted by Georges Prêtre with Plácido Domingo, and the interactive disc for children "Fun and Games" by various
The Tales of Hoffmann (film) termed "a composed film", a marriage of image to operatic music. The finale of "Black Narcissus" and the ballet sequence of "The Red Shoes" were earlier steps toward his goal. "The Tales of Hoffmann" is an achievement of this ideal, as the entire opera was pre-recorded to create the soundtrack, and the movie was edited to the rhythms of the music. The production is completely without dialogue and, with the exception of Robert Rounseville and Ann Ayars, none of the actors did their own singing. Some of the singers had established careers in Britain at the time. Grahame Clifford, for