NET Playhouse — Season 1, Episode 29: Orpheus in the Underworld

Episode synopsis

Britain's Sadler's Wells Opera Company performs Offenbach's popular, light opera. According to Greek myth, the poet Orpheus played beautiful music and loved his wife Eurydice so much that. when she died, he went into the infernal regions to reclaim her life. In Offenbach's satiric treatment of the legend, Orpheus is such a bore and his music is so wretched that Eurydice is glad to go to hell. Orpheus, on the other hand, is equally happy to be rid of her.

About NET Playhouse

NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
• E2The Journey of the Fifth Horse
• E3The Star Wagon
• E4L'Avventura
• E5Victoria Regina, Part 1: Spring
• E6Victoria Regina, Part 2: Summer
• E7Victoria Regina, Part 3: Autumn
• E8Victoria Regina, Part 4: Winter
• E9An Enemy of the People
• E10A Sleep of Prisoners
• E11Ofoeti
• E12The Play of Daniel