Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019
Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019
Watch orphée aux enfers - salzburger festspiele 2019 on Soap2day. 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…
- Genre: Music, TV Movie, Comedy, Fantasy
- Country: Germany
- Director: Michael Beyer
- Cast: Anne Sofie von Otter, Max Hopp, Kathryn Lewek, Joel Prieto, Marcel Beekman, Nadine Weissmann, Lea Desandre, Martin Winkler, Frances Pappas, Rafał Pawnuk, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Peter Renz, Silvano Marraffa, Alessandra Bizzarri, Martina Borroni, Kai Braithwaite, Damian Czarnecki, Shane Dickson, Michael Fernandez, Claudia Greco, Merry Holden,
