Advantages: Gaily jolly, irreverent, humorous, bawdy, tuneful. A masterful reworking of the primary opus of the master of French comic opera. If you enjoy Gilbert and Sullivan track this one down – I can guarantee you a surprisingly wonderful musical experience. Disadvantages: None
“Orpheus in the Underground? I know that. It’s about a Greek bloke who got lost on the Paris Metro, isn’t it?. Written by a Frenchman. It’s got the can-can in it”. Well, let’s scotch a few misconceptions right at the outset! No it isn’t; no it wasn’t and no it doesn’t. Hopefully I will help to correct these misunderstandings by the end of this review.
Regular readers may be aware that I am about half way through my series of articles about the re-released ... ...D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. So, what am I doing, writing about an operetta that is not G&S and is patently not English? Well, there is a whole raft of reasons why it is appropriate – and my timing here is more in the way of an intermission.
Richard D’Oyly Carte was instrumental in bringing W.S. Gilbert (librettist) and Arthur Sullivan (Composer) together in 1875 in a collaboration to write a short piece in English as a curtain raiser from the Offenbach ...
Newfloridian 08.05.2003
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