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Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019 (2020)

Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019 (2020)

Comedy Fantasy Music TV Movie
Release Date: 2020, October 25
Directors: Michael Beyer
Countries: Germany
Production: Unitel, Komische Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Cast: Max Hopp, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Martin Winkler, Anne Sofie von Otter, Lea Desandre, Kathryn Lewek, Joel Prieto, Marcel Beekman, Nadine Weissmann, Frances Pappas, Rafał Pawnuk, Peter Renz

Overview:

Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of ‘Public Opinion’ falls on deaf ears. The mysterious figure of John Styx tells the story of behind-the-times Orpheus and his hacked-off Eurydice, of gods and goddesses seeking diversion, jaded with humdrum life in Olympus. He tells of the rebellion in the pantheon, which Jupiter adeptly averts by promising an amusement for his entourage. Burning with curiosity to see the beauteous captive and the contest between Jupiter and Pluto for Eurydice’s favour, the illustrious company embarks on an infernal ride to the underworld that culminates in what is surely the most wellknown can-can in the history of music. And what of Eurydice? She ends up putting a spoke in everyone’s wheel…

Keywords:

filmed opera