New English-language production of Offenbach's comic operetta, with a 1970s sitcom makeover, directed by Paul Carr as part of the Celebrate Voice Autumn Festival.
Celebrate Voice brings Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld to Salisbury Medieval Hall on Friday 30 October, as part of their Autumn Festival. It's a new English-language production of the comic operetta, and it's being staged in the festival's signature intimate style, which means you'll be close to the action rather than watching from the back of a big theatre.
If you've never come across it, Orpheus in the Underworld is a satire that turns the old myth of Orpheus and Eurydice on its head, and it still keeps the famous Can-Can. This version gives the whole thing a gloriously irreverent 1970s sitcom makeover, so you'll get the composer's melodies and the sharp wit alongside a cast of outrageous characters. It's directed by Paul Carr, with musical direction by Michael Waldron and designs by Fred Broom, and it's performed by a cast of leading opera singers who've worked as principals with major opera companies and festivals across the UK.
It's one of the highlights of the Celebrate Voice Autumn Festival, which runs for ten days and brings together international voices from opera, jazz, music theatre, classical, folk and cabaret, with community and family events mixed in. The festival itself is a grassroots Wiltshire operation that brings international-level performers into intimate, historic venues around Salisbury, so this is one of several nights they've got lined up across the city.
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The performance runs from 19:30 to 21:30 at Salisbury Medieval Hall, Sarum St. Michael Cathedral Close, SP1 2EY. Tickets are £40 for the hall and £50 for the balcony, with child tickets at £12.
