| Prologue |
| Robert Rounseville | ... E. T. A. Hoffmann, a poet |
| Pamela Brown | ... Nicklaus, his faithful friend |
| Robert Helpmann | ... Councillor Lindorf |
| Moira Shearer | ... Stella, prima ballerina |
| Philip Leaver | ... Andreas, Stella's servant |
| Frederick Ashton | ... Kleinzach |
| Moira Shearer | ... His Lady-Love |
| Meinhart Maur | ... Luther, of Luther's Tavern |
| Edmond Audran | ... [Stella's ballet partner] |
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| The Tale of Olympia |
| Moira Shearer | ... Olympia, the doll |
| Robert Rounseville | ... Hoffmann, as a young student |
| Robert Helpmann | ... Coppelius, maker of magic spectacles |
| Leonide Massine | ... Spalanzani, creator of automatons |
| Frederick Ashton | ... Cochenille, half human half puppet |
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| The Tale of Giulietta |
| Ludmilla Tcherina | ... Giulietta, a courtesan |
| Robert Helpmann | ... Dapertutto, her Satanic master |
| Robert Rounseville | ... Hoffmann, now a man of the world |
| Leonide Massine | ... Schlemil, lost his shadow and soul to Giulietta |
| Lionel Harris | ... Pitichinaccio, a hunchback |
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| The Tale of Antonia |
| Ann Ayars | ... Antonia, young opera-singer, ill with consumption |
| [..Her Mother..] | ... A famous opera-singer, now dead |
| Mogens Wieth | ... Crespel, her father, a great conductor |
| Robert Rounseville | ... Hoffmann, now a famous poet |
| Leonide Massine | ... Franz, a deaf servant |
| Robert Helpmann | ... Dr. Miracle, a daemonic physician |
