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Singer

Tenor

Andrés Sulbarán

Orpheus

Soprano

Elena Sancho-Péreg

Eurydice

Florian Simson

Aristaeus / Pluto

Mezzo-soprano

Susan Maclean

Public Opinion

Baritone

Peter Bording

Jupiter

Max Hopp

John Styx

Romana Noack

Cupid

Heidi Elisabeth Meier

Venus

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Torben Jürgens

Mars

Katerziana Kunzio

Juno

Valerie Eickhoff

Diana

Stage director

Barrie Kosky

Conductor

Marie Jacquot

Patrick Francis Chestnut

Lighting designer

Franck Evin

Costume designer

Victoria Behr

Set designer

Rufus Didwiszus

Choreographer

Otto Pichler

Dramaturge

Maurice Lenhard

Susanna Goldberg

Chorus master

Sander de Jong

Mercury

Libretto

Lü-to-wei-k'o A-lai-wei

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

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Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein

Orchestra

Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

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German

Orphée aux enfers -  (Orpheus in the Underworld)

Dusseldorf

Germany

Opernhaus Düsseldorf

Orphée aux enfers Offenbach

Public

Orpheus in the Underworld

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It is a real wolf in sheep's clothing that upsets Eurydice. Pluton, the god of the underworld, enters her life in the form of the lovely and nature-loving Monsieur Aristée, and suddenly everything is different: full of longing, she exchanges her unfulfilled existence at the side of her Orpheus, a violin virtuoso who is as brilliant as he is vain, for the erotic temptations of the shadow realm of Pluton. A twist of fate that Orpheus doesn't want to stand in the way. On the contrary: Eurydice's pleasurable escape into the realm of death cannot go fast enough for him. And so he actually wants nothing less than having to win back his dissolute wife.

Jacques Offenbach and his librettist Ludovic Halévy turn ancient Greek mythology upside down with their "Orpheus in the Underworld". With wit and double bottom, they drive Orpheus' search for his unloved one from one bitter punch line to the next and make the wild travesty, for which Offenbach tailored music rich in quotations, socially acceptable. The escapist life of the divine Hallodris is tackled by director Barrie Kosky, who returns to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein with this celebrated co-production with the Salzburg Festival and the Komische Oper Berlin.

English

Orpheus in the Underworld by Offenbach, From (2022/2022), Directed by Barrie Kosky,, Conductor Marie Jacquot, Patrick Francis Chestnut, Opernhaus Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

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