Name: Orphée aux enfers
Start: 2019-03-30
End: 2019-03-30
Location: Nationaltheater

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Joshua Whitener

Orpheus

Soprano

Amelia Scicolone

Eurydice

Mezzo-soprano

Monika Fuhrmann

Public Opinion

Heidrun Arnegger

Gerda Maria Knauer

Julia Müller-Wolthuis

Susanne Nederkorn

Susanne Scheffel

Anja Wollenweber

Joachim Goltz

Aristaeus / Pluto

Wolfgang Neumann

John Styx

Baritone

Thomas Berau

Jupiter

Marie-Belle Sandis

Juno

Estelle Kruger

Venus

Stefanie Smits

Iris Kupke

Diana

Bass

Ilya Lapich

Mars

Uwe Eikötter

Mercury

Ludovica Bello

Cupid

Conductor

Benjamin Reiners

Matthew Toogood

Stage director

Markus Bothe

Set designer

Robert Schweer

Costume designer

Justina Klimczyk

Lighting designer

Damian Chmielarz

Choreographer

Norbert Steinwarz

Chorus master

Dani Juris

Dramaturge

Cordula Demattio

Nationaltheater Mannheim

German

Orphée aux enfers -  (Orpheus in the Underworld)

Mannheim

Germany

Nationaltheater

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Orpheus in the Underworld

Approved

Orpheus and Eurydice do not have to contend with adverse fate, but with boredom and weariness in what is probably the most irreverent version of the myth that has ever been presented. Jacques Offenbach's »opéra bouffon« from 1858 satirizes conditions in Paris during the Second Empire: disguise and façade are everything. It is important to keep up appearances under all circumstances, otherwise »public opinion« threatens character assassination. It is only this threat that finally persuades Orpheus to go into the underworld to look for his wife there. Eurydice herself has no intention of returning to marital ennui, instead throwing herself into the arms of the god of hell Pluto - and, when he too disappoints her, into the clutches of a seductive fly... The story of a desperate search for happiness and adventure, which always fails for the same reasons, is staged by Markus Bothe as a fast-paced, over-the-top game of hide-and-seek in which people love, lie, suffer and laugh to their heart's content. Of course, the famous can-can from hell shouldn't be missing either. Musical direction: Benjamin Reiners / Matthew Toogood Director: Markus Bothe Stage: Robert Schweer Costumes: Justina Klimczyk Light: Damian Chmielarz Choreography: Norbert Steinwarz Dramaturgy: Cordula Demattio Choir: Dani Juris Orpheus: Joshua Whitener Euyridke: Amelia Scicolone Pluto / Aristeus: Joachim Goltz Styx: Wolfgang Neumann Jupiter: Thomas Berau Juno: Marie Belle Sandis Venus: Estelle Kruger / Stefanie Smits Diana: Iris Kupke Mars: Ilya Lapich Mercury: Uwe Eikotter Cupid: Ludovica Bello Public opinion: Heidrun Arnegger, Monika Fuhrmann, Gerda Maria Knauer, Julia Müller-Wolthuis, Susanne Nederkorn, Susanne Scheffel, Anja Wollenweber Further information and all performance dates

»Orpheus in the Underworld« by Jacques Offenbach

Orpheus in the Underworld by Offenbach, Sat 30 Mar 2019, From (2019/2019), Directed by Markus Bothe,, Conductor Benjamin Reiners, Matthew Toogood, Nationaltheater, Mannheim, Germany

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