What: Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld." Where: Alice Busch Opera Theater, Otsego Lake, Cooperstown, New York. When: July 7th, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. (Performances continue in repertory through ...

Have no fears of flying off into Offenbach’s delicious musical parody of the legend of Orpheus pursuing his wife Eurydice into the Underworld. Be swept away with light, sparkling opera music and ...

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 ...

When French composer Jacques Offenbach sat down in 1858 to compose a satirical update of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s 1762 opera classic, “Orfeo ed Euridice” (Orpheus and Eurydice), he ended up penning ...

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 ...

Madison Opera welcomes spring with Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld on Friday, April 29 at 8pm and Sunday, May 1 at 2:30pm in Overture Hall at the Overture Center for the Arts. The first ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fair Eurydice has had it up to here (picture hand under her chin) with her sketchy fiddle-playing husband Orpheus and takes up with the shepherd Aristaeus, who turns out to be Pluto, whom she ...

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 ...

Opera À La Carte San Diego presents Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld Get ready for glitter, grooves, and Greek gods like you’ve never seen them before! Join Opera À La Carte San Diego for a ...