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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.
Orpheus in the Underworld, comic operetta by French composer Jacques Offenbach (French libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy), a satirical treatment of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus. It premiered on October 21, 1858, at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris. The work’s best-known.
- Betsy Schwarm
Read the introductory guide to Orpheus in the Underworld. Find out more about Emma Rice's staging of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, including the opera's story & snippets of the ENO's last production.
Here’s everything you need to know about ENO’s production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. It’s an all-singing all-dancing operetta by Jacques Offenbach Although based on the famous Orpheus myth, Offenbach has satirised the story, turning it on its head for his operetta.
