Opera Ithaca will present a new production of Jacques Offenbach's sinfully delightful Orpheus in the Underworld on April 28th and 29th at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca. This gleefully comedic sendup of ...

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 ...

The Can-Can! Moulin Rouge! Spoofing both mythology and the foibles of man. Offenbach’s smash-hit operetta is this summer’s hottest party in hell. Eurydice tired of bickering with annoying husband ...

Opera À La Carte San Diego, which made its debut in May 2024 with an intimate East Village production of Puccini’s “La bohème,” will return later this month with an opera that has never been stage in ...

Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld” is a parody of opera’s founding myth; a satire of 19th-century Parisian society (particularly its marriages); and a journey to music’s most famous cancan.

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 ...

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 ...

Best known for its high-kicking can-can, Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld – just over 150 years old – was originally a scurrilous political satire, in the same way as Gilbert and Sullivan tore ...