By David Nicholson Contact Reporter – dbnicholson@dailypress.com VA, September 24, 2015, 8:45 PM – In the mid-1800s, Wagner, Verdi and other opera composers were writing a lot of serious stuff. Along came Jacques Offenbach who decided that he mostly wanted to...
By David Siegel VA, October 1-7, 2015 – Have no fears of flying off into Offenbach’s delicious musical parody of the legend of Orpheus pursuing his wife Eurydice into the Underworld. Be swept away with light, sparkling opera music and terrific voices as well as some...
By Paul A. Sayegh Virginian-Pilot correspondent Norfolk, VA, September 30, 2015 – Virginia Opera kicked off its season in high style with French composer Jacques Offenbach’s rowdy 1858 operetta “Orpheus in the Underworld,” given in an English translation by Jeremy...
By Sam Hall Fairfax, VA, October 4, 2015 – I was expecting to be entertained by the Virginia Opera’s rendition of Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, directed by Sam Helfrich, which played at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts last night, but I...
By April Phillips Virginian-Pilot correspondent Virginia, September 25, 2015 – Sex sells, but does it sell opera tickets? “Orpheus in the Underworld,” the Virginia Opera’s season-opening production, scandalized critics and audiences when it opened in Paris in 1858....
