Orpheus in the Underworld/ Final/Shorter Opera Theatre

Shorter College Opera Theatre performs the final scene from Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Featuring Lenora Green as Eurydice.

In this scene, Eurydice attends disguised as a bacchante, a follower of Bacchus, god of wine, but Pluto realises who she is and blocks Jupiter's path when Jupiter tries to make off with her. Jupiter again accuses Pluto of abducting Eurydice. When Orpheus and Public Opinion appear, Jupiter tells Orpheus he can take his wife away, but only if he does not look back at her as they go. When Orpheus fails this test, Pluto claims Eurydice. Jupiter, however, takes her away from Pluto by announcing that he is turning her into a real bacchante. Everyone, except Pluto and Public Opinion, is delighted and the operetta climaxes with the energetic Can-Can, danced by all the gods and goddesses.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Orpheus
• Offenbach
• Shorter
• College
• workshop
• opera
• operetta

[sycklesythe]

funny

[heuhr]

GREAT!!!!!