If Hell were as much fun as it is in the Opera North’s production of Offenbach’s “Orpheus and the Underworld,” we’d be making reservations. After all, Mount Olympus — home of Jupiter and the good, ...

Ashnaa Sasikaran as Eurydice and Nicholas Watts as Orpheus with members of the Orpheus company We see the respective friends and family gathered, dressed in their best for such an occasion, and the ...

A comedic romp through Hadestown! The Can-Can! Moulin Rouge! Spoofing both mythology and the foibles of man. Offenbach’s smash-hit operetta is this summer’s hottest party in hell. Eurydice tired of ...

Opera North celebrates its 42nd year with three beloved works of musical theater, from the 19th-century ribald satirical comedy Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld,” to one of the icons of Romantic ...

We are only too aware that we are working with two massive musical traditions, but the first thing that struck us when we started rehearsing was that there were more similarities in our approaches to ...