Barrie Kosky’s new production of “Orpheus in the Underworld” is, he says, a “fantasy world.” By Micaela Baranello Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld” is a parody of opera’s founding myth; a satire ...
Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld” is a parody of opera’s founding myth; a satire of 19th-century Parisian society (particularly its marriages); and a journey to music’s most famous cancan.