Orpheus in the Underworld


Composer: Offenbach, Jacques 1819 - 1880

Version: English version by Jeremy Sams

Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld), first performed in 1858, is said to be the first classical full-length operetta, and is arguably Offenbach’s most popular work. An irreverent parody of Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice (1762), and scathing satire on many aspects of French society and politics, the operetta is internationally famous for its risqué galop infernal, popularly known as the ‘Can-Can’.

Format
V/S

Publisher
JW


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