THE TALES OF HOFFMANN [HOFUMAN NO MONOGATARI
(ホフマンの物語)

                 
[Boat Song] Fune Uta (船うた)

Opera: [The Tales of Hoffmann] Hofuman no Monogatari
(ホフマンの物語)
Print Date:  1922
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Lithographic sheet music cover
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: Senô Gakufu (セノオ楽譜) No. 16
 
 
 

                 
[Barcarolle ("O Belle Nuit"] Barukarôre (バルカローレ)

Opera: [Tales of Hoffmann] Hofuman no Monogatari
(ホフマンの物語)
Print Date:  1925
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Lithographic sheet music cover
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: Senô Baiorin Gakufu (セノオバイオリン楽譜)
No. 651.  This was a generic sheet music cover
 mostly used by Senô for classical compositions.
 
 
 

Operas: La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La Sonnambula; Manon Lescaut; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Tosca; Thaïs; The Barber of Seville; Aida; Carmen; Madame
Butterfly; La Boheme; The Tales of Hoffman; Un Ballo in Maschera; La Gioconda; Faust
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/10-29/26
Print Date: 02/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

Operas: Aida; Faust; Carmen; Boris Gudonov; Eugene Onegin; The Tales of Hoffman; Rigoletto;
The Demon; The Queen of Spades
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  09/21-30/26
Print Date: 09/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithographic printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the Russian Grand Opera.  Although it is not entirely clear, I believe the cover
depicts the interior of the Teikoku Gekijô.
 
 
 
 

Operas: La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La Sonnambula; Manon Lescaut; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Tosca; Thaïs; The Barber of Seville; Aida; Carmen; Madam
Butterfly; La Boheme; The Tales of Hoffman; Un Ballo in Maschera; La Gioconda
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/10-29/27
Print Date: 03/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

Operas: The Tales of Hoffman; Carmen; Khovanschina; Faust; Samson and Delilah;
Boris Godunov; Lakmé; Sadko
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/26/27 - 05/05/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the Russian Grand Opera.
 
 
 

Operas:  Il Trovatore; Tosca; Rigoletto; Aida; La Traviata; Carmen; La Boheme; Cavalleria Rusticana;
 I Pagliacci; The Barber of Seville; Lucia di Lammermoor; The Tales Of Hoffman; La Gioconda;
Manon Lescaut; Ballo in Maschera; La Sonnambula
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/16-30/29
Print Date: 03/1929?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? flyer art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.