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Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act 3 : Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act 3: Schlémil!
About This Song
About "Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act 3 : Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act 3: Schlémil!" by Beverly Sills
Schlémil's name cuts through Offenbach's score like a cold blade. Sills's voice glints with menace as the ensemble tightens, the music a velvet trap closing. Here, the opera's fantastical veneer cracks, revealing a bleak transaction—desire and doom in a single, chilling utterance.