There’s irony in the fact that Manitoba Underground Opera presented, as its 2024 season closer, an opéra fantastique about three staunchly heterosexual love stories in Canada’s longest-running gay bar. But “love is love” as they say, and with MUO’s production of Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann staged in the glittering Club 200, the venue proved an intriguing space for stage director Matthew Paris-Irvine’s (company debut) loud ‘n’ proud, gender-bending version of the opera.