Director: Richard Trevaskis
Musical Director: Alan McKie
Choreographer: Sue Pole

Forget Gluck and Monteverdi!

This outrageously funny send-up of the Orpheus myth is Offenbach at his most saucy, effervescent and irreverent.

This Orpheus doesn’t want his wife back – nor she him – until Public Opinion forces him to at least try to retrieve her from Hades. Offenbach lampoons hypocrisy and wowserism, as relevant today as when it was written. Lecherous gods, saucy goddesses, not-so-naïve nymphs and shepherds, and the infernal Can-Can – this is a highly disrespectful romp!

Join us for a night of sparklingly witty music, the new Opera Australia libretto, and a load of fun.

• Music by Jacques Offenbach
• New Translation by Jonathan Biggins and Phillip Scott
• By arrangement with Opera Australia

• View Orpheus in the Underworld Publicity Photos.
• View Official Photographs of the Show.

 

Performance Dates:

12 - 16 May 8:00 pm / 16 May 2:00 pm

Venue

Scott Theatre
off Kintore Ave
Adelaide University
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