There are quotes from (Gluck’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’) in the piece — it’s not subtle at all. It just sparkles from beginning to end.” The opera is perhaps best known for its famed “Galop infernal” in ...
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 ...