Orpheus in the Underworld

December 29, 1983•1h 58m•★ 8.0

ComedyMusic

Offenbach's popular comic opera poking fun at Greek mythology in english translation, staged for television by Christopher Renshaw.

Director

Cast

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