Orphée aux Enfers

Director: Dirk Gryspiert

Date of release: 01 May 1997

Description

Orphée aux Enfers, Offenbach's riotous parody of the dissipations of French life in the Second Empire, fairly gallops past in this 1997 Herbert Wernicke production staged at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels. Based on Offenbach's meatier second version (1874) of the Orpheus legend, it features nicely judged performances across the board and some stunning special effects, notably the explosive locomotive crash signalling the breach of the divide between Heaven and Hell. Satire reigns, not least in the reactionary figure of Public Opinion, a pinny-clad bossy boots with a hint of Dame Edna Everage about her. Olympus is a moribund salon full of bored Gods, sick of the Ambrosian diet.

Extra

Runtime	120 minute
Producer	Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
Language	Français
Themes	opera offenbach
Actors	André Jung Dale Duesing Alexandru Badea Elizabeth Vidal Reinaldo Macias Franck Cassard Marie-Noëlle de Callataÿ Desirée Meiser Laurence Misonne Michele Patzakis Sonja Theodoridou Jacqueline van Quaille Patrick Davin