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1 online resource (188 min.) |
| 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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Title from resource description page (viewed November 20, 2017) |
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Written in 1858 |
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Burlesque opera in three acts |
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Libretto by Hector Crémieux with additional lyrics by Ludovic Halévy; new version by Götz Friedrich and Thomas Woikewitsch |
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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 |
| Performer |
Donald Grobe (Orpheus) ; Julia Migenes Johnson (Eurydike) ; Mona Seefried (die Öffentliche Meinung) ; Hans Beirer (Jupiter) ; Astrid Varnay (Juno) ; George Shrley (Aristeus/Pluto) ; Helmuth Lohner (Hans Styx) ; Janis Martin (Diana) ; Annabelle Bernard (Venus) ; Carol Malone (Cupido) ; Peter Maus (Merkur) ; Manfred Röhrl (Mars) ; supporting soloists ; Chorus, Orchestra, and Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ; Jesús López Cobos, conductor |
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Recorded Deutsche Oper Berlin |
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Sung and spoken principally in German; the role of Pluto/Aristeus sung and spoken principally in French |
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Operas.
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Operas.
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Operas.
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Operas.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Crémieux, Hector-Jonathan, 1828-1892, librettist
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Halévy, Ludovic, 1834-1908, librettist
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Woitkewitsch, Thomas, translator
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López-Cobos, Jesús, conductor
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Large, Brian, film director
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Friedrich, Götz, stage director, translator
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Deutsche Oper Berlin, performer
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Sender Freies Berlin, production company
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