Orpheus in the Underworld
Status:
Released
Production:
Aired:
1983-12-29
Orpheus in the Underworld
Offenbach's popular comic opera poking fun at Greek mythology in english translation, staged for television by Christopher Renshaw.
Comedy
Music
Characters
Denis Quilley
Jupiter / Napoleon III
Christopher Gable
Mercury
Lillian Watson
Eurydice
Alexander Oliver
Orpheus
Emile Belcourt
Pluto
Elizabeth Gale
Cupid
Isobel Buchanan
Diana
Felicity Palmer
Venus
Pauline Tinsley
Public Opinion
Bernard Dickerson
John Styx
John Fryatt
Mars
Honor Blackman
Juno / Empress Eugnie