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UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz

A rollicking and irreverent spoof of the Orpheus myth, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is most famous as the origin of the “gallop infernal”—the music now strongly associated with the can-can dance. This operetta follows the unhappy (and unfaithful) union of Orpheus and Eurydice, as the latter’s love affair with the god of the […]