Orpheus In The Underworld is probably most famous for one number at
the end of Act III called Galop - also known as The Can Can! A very basic
version of the story goes a little like this: Orpheus can't stand his wife,
Eurydice, and is delighted when she is bitten by a poisonous snake and carried
off to the underworld by Pluto. Public Opinion, in the guise of a mezzo
soprano, demands that Orpheus follow her to Hades and bring her back. While he
is there, we get to witness some rather "ungodly" behaviour by the
denizens of Mount Olympus.
Offenbach's fantastic score
includes some of the following:
Cherchez
La Femme! • Balloon Song • I Was A King • A Shepherd Am I • The
'Fly' Duet • The Hades Chorus
• Mortals Below, Gods Up Above
For Havering Music Makers'
production:
Producer - Jennifer Cresswell
Musical Director - Alan Steel
Additional Choreography - Jean Finn
Rehearsal Accompanist - Jeremy Prentice
By arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd/Glocken
Verlag Ltd
Havering Music Makers are an amateur society affiliated to The National Operatic
and Dramatic Association and acknowledge the support of Havering Arts
Council
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