Orpheus in der Unterwelt : burleske Oper in drei Akten /
"Orpheus in der Unterwelt", Offenbach's satirical answer toGluck'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 Friedri...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | German French |
| Language Notes: | Sung and spoken principally in German; the role of Pluto/Aristeus sung and spoken principally in French. |
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Munich, Bavaria :
ArtHaus Musik,
1984.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | "Orpheus in der Unterwelt", Offenbach's satirical answer toGluck'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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed November 20, 2017). Written in 1858. Burlesque opera in three acts. Libretto by Hector Crémieux with additional lyrics by Ludovic Halévy; new version by Götz Friedrich and Thomas Woikewitsch. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (188 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 03:07:56 |
| Production Credits: | Stage director, Gö#x88;tz Friedrich ; stage and costume designer, Andreas Reinhardt ; chorus master, Walter Hagen-Groll ; choreographer, Ivan Sertić#x81;; video director, Brian Large. |