Name: Orphée aux enfers
Start: 1984-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1984-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Organization

Direzione d'orchestra

Jesús López-Cobos

Regia

Götz Friedrich

Tenore

Donald Groves

Orfeo

Soprano

Julia Migenes

Euridice

George Shirley

Aristeo/Plutone

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Others

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

tedesco

Orphée aux enfers -  (Orfeo all'Inferno)

Berlino

Germania

"Orpheus in der Unterwelt", Offenbach’s satirical answer to Gluck’s “Orfeo”, was premiered in Paris 1858 and portrays society as amoral, the upper class as lax and indifferent to all and public opinion in charge of both.

In the early 1980s legendary director Götz Friedrich created his own contemporary version of the operetta at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, in German, filled with allusions to the contemporary cultural scene and society in general. Starring a large cast of renowned artists – singers and actors – Orpheus’ odyssey to the Olympic Gods and to the Underworld, in order to save his wife, receives a new face – away from Paris in the 19th century and to bourgeois West-Berlin. The performance stars Julia Migenes Johnson, Donald Grobe, Astrid Varnay and George Shirley, to name but a few. Jesús López Cobos has the musical direction in this production.

Crediti di rappresentazione (Cast e team di produzione )

Cast

Ensemble