Orpheus in the Underworld

Opera for the masses It’s bold, fun, and very critical of society. It’s time for a multitude of sheep and earworm music when Vidar Magnussen's Orpheus in the Underworld shakes the Opera again! Populist god fest People think they know what to expect in the Opera: Love and death, great sorrow, little mischief, and a theme as ancient as the art of opera itself. People think that. People are wrong. Because nothing is as people expect when director Vidar Magnussen's operetta returns to Bjørvika again – with Kristoffer Olsen in one of the leading roles. You are hereby invited to a wild god fest with high spirits, incredibly familiar music, costumes of the rough kind – and a can-can that kicks in all directions. Operetta in Norwegian There are many operas about Orpheus: The one who loses his girl, Eurydice, and sings so beautifully that he gets to enter the very realm of the dead to bring her back. But what if Orpheus is actually glad to be rid of Eurydice? And what if she doesn't really want to be saved? The operetta plays with opera, with us humans, and with the time we live in. And in Orpheus in the Underworld , we play in Norwegian, in a now updated adaptation of the classic myth – signed by Matilde Holdhus.