Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is a comic opera. Its score was composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French text written by Ludovic Halévy and ...

The George Gershwin of France’s Second Empire was mutton-chop-whiskered Jacques Offenbach. Stuffy politicians, high-toned artists, bombastic literati winced at his satirical songs. All Paris, from the ...

Offenbach, who also launched avant-garde innovations in stagecraft and design, played a leading role in cultural change, not only in music but also in literature, art, and politics, as he offered an ...

During the years of the Second Empire, the operettas of Jacques Offenbach kept Parisian audiences delightedly dizzy with their roundelays of sexual hijinx, with music to match. Word-for-word and ...

On Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6 at Washtenaw Community College's Towsley Auditorium, Ann Arbor's Comic Opera Guild will present a new show, "Her Highness, The Prince," by COG founder Tom Petiet, ...

Part Frankfurt School social critique, part homage to the City of Light, this biography of the composer, originally published in German in 1937, is really the ""biography...of a society."" The late ...