Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), or opéra féerie in its revised version. Its score was composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French text written by Ludovic Halévy and later revised by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux.
Produced in 1858, Orpheus in the Underworld was Offenbach's first full-length operetta, which was exceptionally well received and has remained one of his most played works.
Come here the piece in it's full glory Saturday, 10 March 2018, at the Sand Du Plessis Theatre!
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