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Orpheus in the Underworld and Orpheus in Hell are English names for Orphée aux enfers (French: [ɔʁfe oz‿ɑ̃fɛʁ]), a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy.
Orphée aux enfers: Directed by Ariane Adriani, Yves-André Hubert. With Natalie Dessay, Yann Beuron, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Laurent Naouri. A spoof on the Ancient Greek myth, Orpheus and Eurydice are two bickering spouses who are happily separated when she is kidnapped by the gods and forms a love triangle with Pluton and Jupiter.
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- Comedy, Musical
- Ariane Adriani, Yves-André Hubert
- 124
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Orphée aux Enfers, Offenbach's riotous parody of the dissipations of French life in the Second Empire, fairly gallops past in this 1997 Herbert Wernicke production staged at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
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When Offenbach’s opera premiered, critics expressed shock, both because it mocked Gluck’s revered telling of the tale and because it dismissed the idea of the perfection of ancient Greece. Audiences, however, loved it, and within a few years Orpheus in the Underworld became an international success.
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