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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the third year in a row FAVA, the Franco-American Vocal Academy, is presenting a French operetta at Miller Outdoor Theatre. This year’s production is of Jacques Offenbach’s 1858 piece Orphée aux ...

All hell will break loose at the Scott Theatre in May when the Gilbert & Sullivan Society presents Offenbach's naughty twist on the Orpheus legend. The production will use a libretto written for Opera ...

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 ...

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The ancient tale of Orpheus searching for his beloved in the underworld has been told many times. The Greek hero with musical superpowers was portrayed by composer Monteverdi in an early-17th-century ...

Admired yet underestimated: that was the fate of German-French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach, who died 140 ago. Here's a look back at his work. Dancers holding up high the seams of their frilly ...

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 ...