Radio review: Last Word; Private Passions
When I was a kid, the only way to see films, outside of the cinema, was when they were shown on telly, so the best news you could receive was of the death of a major film star. We'd run about the house going "Cary Grant's gone! Yesssssss! Goodbye Six O'Clock news, hello North by Northwest!", as a commemorative season hit the schedules. Then we'd feel bad because he was dead. Now that I have a DVD player, I mainly get this experience from Last Word ( Radio 4, Sunday), particularly when a folk singer dies. Mike Waterson's passing from pancreatic cancer is a great loss to English music, but gave rise to the best radio obituary in ages.
On a lighter note, ahem, Private Passions: Light Fantastic (Radio 3, Sunday) was a compendium of past guests whose passions haven't been pieces so much as ditties. It does happen, you know. You get the odd guest coming on saying: "I like Mahler and all that, but I prefer a fol-de-rol." Stephen Fry chose A Walk in the Black Forest, performed by Herb Alpert ("a walk," said Michael Berkeley, "which had Stephen Fry also rolling around on the floor with laughter." That seemed a bit rum. It wasn't that funny). Dame Edna Everage chose the Sabre Dance by the Andrews Sisters , which seemed curiously fitting. It would be pushing a point to say they looked like transvestites, but the Andrews Sisters did have a rufty-tufty, ready-for-anything, faintly martial air about them. Mark Ravenhill's passions were aroused by the jolly, and probably hilarious (once) You've Gone Too Far from Offenbach's Orpheus and the Underworld. It was fun, goshdarnit, the whole thing.
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He is best known for his light operettas, including Orphee aux Enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) and one grand opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann). Death of Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes, French revolutionary leader; he played a major part in the
Mark Ravenhill's passions were aroused by the jolly, and probably hilarious (once) You've Gone Too Far from Offenbach's Orpheus and the Underworld. It was fun, goshdarnit, the whole thing. This article appeared on p24 of the G2 section of the Guardian
The second half begins with the romantic “Hebrides” Overture by Mendelssohn, followed by Grieg's “Peer Gynt” and ending with Offenbach's rousing “Orpheus in the Underworld”. Ron Walker, the TSO conductor, said: “Due to unforeseen circumstances we have
The most famous of his more than 100 operettas is "Orpheus in the Underworld." His one serious opera, "Tales of Hoffman," is perhaps his greatest achievement. The work was unfinished when he died in 1880, and was not premiered until the following year.
Bill Moffit; “E Pluribus Unum,” a march by Fred Jewell; Overture from “Orpheus in the Underworld” by Jacques Offenbach, arr. Lawrence Odom; “Napoli” by Herman Bellstedt, arr. Fred Simon; “Civil War Fantasy” by Jerry H. Bilik; “American Folk Rhapsody
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RT : Week 1 of Orpheus in the Underworld music calls done. Sounding positively GODLY. Dancing next week, stretch out those legs if you CAN CAN!
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Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) is an opéra bouffon (a form of operetta), or opéra féerie in its revised version, by Jacques Offenbach. ...
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As an archetype of the inspired singer, Orpheus is one of the most significant figures in ... The descent to the Underworld of Orpheus is paralleled in other versions of a ...
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Orpheus in the Underworld. . Opera in two acts by Offenbach to a libretto by Crémieux and Halévy (1858, Paris); Offenbach expanded it into four acts
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Orpheus in the Underworld (in French: 'Orphée aux enfers') is an operetta in two acts by Jacques Offenbach. ... The English translations are in a far more confusing state, as ...