In this comic operetta, Offenbach turns the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice upside down. Instead of a tale of courage and undying love, in which a husband goes into Hell to save his wife — the tale at ...

Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is a comic opera. Its score was composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French text written by Ludovic Halévy and ...

It almost collapsed — and yet Friday’s opening night of Opera Company of Middlebury’s production of Jacques Offenbach’s “Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld),” to say the least, was ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. KEENE, N.H. -- Jacques Offenbach's satirical operetta, "Orphee aux enfers" (Orpheus in the Underworld) was a smash hit in 1858 and revised as an ...

In the myth of Orpheus, the demigod’s bride, Eurydice, dies of a snakebite; he goes to Hades to persuade the god of the underworld, through the power of his music, to return her. Pluto instructs that ...

Barrie Kosky’s new production of “Orpheus in the Underworld” is, he says, a “fantasy world.” By Micaela Baranello Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld” is a parody of opera’s founding myth; a satire ...

The gods take a spirited holiday in the underworld in Jacques Offenbach's most famous operetta. This is a ticketed event for the covered seating area. Free tickets are available (four per person over ...

Sarah Lenton for Building a Library comes up with a personal recommendation for Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld from among available versions. The starting point for Jacques Offenbach's 1858 ...

Walking into Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater on Monday made it pretty obvious that a Douglas Anderson production was underway — there were two Las Vegas-style slot machines on stage, and they were ...