RELEASE DATE: 20 June 2024
MOVIE RUNNING TIME: 150 min
Jacques Offenbach's famous operetta in a uniquely colorful and entertaining staging. Retransmitted from the Salzburg Festival [Salzburger Festspiele]. Who composed the world's most famous cancan? Jacques Offenbach, of course. And where did he place it? In his most famous operetta, namely Orphée aux enfers. Offenbach, a French composer of Jewish descent, was not only a highly gifted artist who possessed an exceptionally light sense of humor as well as a musical pen, but also a skilful entrepreneur with a keen sense of audience needs in a flash. In 1855, he founded the private Le Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, which is still in operation today. There he staged one-act musical farces to give Parisians the crazy comic opera Orpheus in Hell in 1858, three years after the theater opened. It was an absolute novelty, a one-of-a-kind operatic buffoonery that presented the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in a frivolous manner, to say the least. Since it had a light and incongruous character and spoken dialogues alongside the sung parts, it was considered a new genre, what we call operetta today. Offenbach was a master at writing operettas on the basis of Greek myths and traditional fairy tales (The Beauty of Helen or The Knight Bluebeard). His “antique” and “fantastic” works always somehow depicted his down-to-earth contemporaries, with all their amusing flaws. How this brilliant composer portrayed the tragic story of the Thracian singer Orpheus, who traveled to the afterlife to reclaim his wife Eurydice - we'll find out from the frenzied performance realized in 2019 as part of the Salzburger Festspiele, a famous festival that is now more than a century old. The production was directed by Barrie Kosky (Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with the Wiener Staatsoper) and orchestrated by Enrique Mazzola, music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The role of Eurydice is played by Kathryn Lewek, one of the best current performers of the arch-difficult part of the Queen of the Night from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, while legendary Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter is entrusted with the hilarious role of public opinion.
Original title: Orphée aux enfers
Cast:
Director: Barrie Kosky
Production: Austria 2019
Age restrictions: NA
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