Orpheus in the Underworld

Offenbach

Glimmerglass Opera

Conductor: Jean Marie Zeitouni
Set Design: Allen Moyer
Costume Design: Gabriel Berry
Lighting Design: Shawn K. Kaufman
English Translation: Kelley Rourke

Praise

It was delightful to take in Offenbachs frothy operetta, which pokes fun at Gluck’s august masterpiece, the next afternoon. Eric Einhorn’s production, with sets by Allen Moyer, is jolly and appropriately over the top.

-The New York Times, August 7, 2007

Like a whoopee cushion among the love seats, Offenbach’s Orpheus is unashamedly vulgar and pushes the envelope to the limit, or with the chorus costumes in the last scene, even beyond the limit. Director Eric Einhorn’s riotous staging overflows with visual gags, such as having a lovesick Diana look like Marlene Dietrich, or ending one scene with an allusion to the barricades in Les Miserables.

-Syracuse New Times, August 15, 2007

The production of Offenbachs Orpheus in the Underworld gets nearly everything right. Part Brideshead Revisited and part Feydeau farce, with an unholy bit of Cabaret (think leather) thrown in, its vivid, daring, funny, and musically sound.

-The New Yorker, July 23, 2007

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