La Cieca is delighted to note that that ragtag band of misfits known as the Vertical Player Repertory will return to their non-traditional performing venue, the Red Hook Marine Terminal, for a new production of The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach, weekend evenings at 8 pm September 5-21.

Following up on last season’s successful staging of Puccini’s Il tabarro (“exhilarating,” gasped Brian Kellow in Opera News), this production of the Offenbach classic will be set “in the open air, dockside, surrounded by a panorama of gantry cranes, the lumber port, passing vessel traffic and a spectacular view of Governor’s Island and the Lower Manhattan skyline. ”

Ticket information and (be sure to check this!) instructions for traveling to the Red Hook Marine Terminal may be found at smarttix.com.