Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Jesús López-Cobos

Mise en scène

Götz Friedrich

Chanteur

Ténor

Donald Groves

Orphee

Soprano

Julia Migenes

Eurydice

George Shirley

Aristée

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Others

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

allemand

Orphée aux enfers

Berlin

Allemagne

"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.

Public

Valide

Watch full performance here: Orphée aux enfers (1984)

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Orphée aux enfers by Offenbach, Du (1984/1984), Dirigé par Götz Friedrich,, Chef d'orchestre Jesús López-Cobos, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Allemagne

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