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1 Orpheus in the Underworld 3 Welcome Orpheus in the Underworld 1 Orpheus in the Underworld 3 Welcome The rest of our 2011-12 season is busy: not least with a concert on Sunday 30th October with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at the Ulster Hall the final night of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s (another Oliver Mears crucial partner). Dame Kiri is performing alongside Aritstic Director, NI Opera the winner of our inaugural vocal competition, Ben McAteer, from Newry: we’re pleased that this exciting event will be yet another collaboration, this time with Good evening and welcome to this new production the brilliant Ulster Orchestra. of Offenbach’s classic comic opera, Orpheus in the Underworld, which we’re pleased to be presenting We will also be working with The Ulster with a new script by Rory Bremner, in partnership Orchestra on our first ever appearance at the Grand with Scottish Opera. Opera House in Belfast for Humperdinck’s classic fairy-tale opera, Hansel and Gretel in November. NI Opera is a year old this month: in our 2010-11 With music and story suitable for all the family, our season, our first, we produced a Christmas concert production features internationally-renowned singer HUMPERDINCK’S CLASSIC OPERA with Camerata Ireland and Barry Douglas, a touring Graham Clark as the Witch alongside a cast from production of Menotti’s The Medium, and our first Northern Ireland and further afield - and a whole large-scale production - Tosca, in three different chorus of Gingerbread Children! The show also venues in Derry-Londonderry. All of our productions travels to the Millenium Forum on 12th January - have shown our commitment to high standards, local book soon, as tickets are selling fast. talent - and range. We are determined to produce work of the highest quality in all parts of the region, Finally, spring 2012 sees our production of Britten’s and touring is an essential part of this, especially classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, which tours with the combined resources offered by co-producing. Northern Ireland in March before two performances at the Buxton Festival in July. Leading Irish soprano In times of economic contraction, opera faces Fiona Murphy stars as the haunted Governess, while particular challenges: with all its elements of set, Omagh-born Annemarie Woods designs. We do hope costumes, singers, orchestra and stage crew, opera is you can catch one or more of these events - your an expensive art form, and increasingly companies support is absolutely crucial to the future of the are having to collaborate to drive down costs, company. sustain quality - and even to survive. Collaboration also entails a sharing of expertise and experience, I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the to everyone’s mutual benefit - and we are already Arts Council of Northern Ireland for their unstinting planning many more such partnerships in the months and essential support for the company and all that and years to come. we are trying to achieve. We welcome support from A DELICIOUSLY GORY TALE FOR ALL THE FAMILY individuals, and would be delighted if you felt able I would like to thank David Lan for inviting us to to support us in other ways - do take a look at our Thurs 24 – Sat 26 November 2011, 7.30pm the Young Vic in London for nine performances of website, www.niopera.com, to find out more. Orpheus in December this year. There can be few Grand Opera House, Belfast companies with such a progressive, creative ethos We hope you enjoy the show! Tickets from £11.75 as the Young Vic, and NI Opera are delighted to be appearing at this great venue. Oliver Mears New Co-Production with Scottish Opera Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphee aux enfers) A comic opera in two acts First performed at the Theatredes Music by Jacques Offenbach Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris on supported by Libretto by Hector Cremieux 21 October 1858 and Ludovic Halevy The performance will last approximately Sung in a new English translation 2 hours and 5 minutes by Rory Bremner There will be an interval of 20 minutes Orchestrial reduction by Tony Burke after Act 1 Scene 2 Orpheus in the Underworld 7 Performances Season 2011/12 Unforgettable Northern Ireland The Great Hall, Downpatrick Opera Thursday 27 October 2011 The Marketplace, Armagh Friday 28 October 2011 Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey Monday 31 October 2011 The Millennium Forum, Derry Wednesday 2 November 2011 Strule Arts Centre, Omagh Friday 4 November 2011 Festival of Voice September 2011 NI Opera Season 11/12 London Glenarm, Belfast and Derry Young Vic Thursday, December 1 – Saturday, December 3 Orpheus in the Underworld by Offenbach Tuesday, December 6 – Saturday, December 10 New translation by Rory Bremner 27 October - 4 November 2011 NI tour, various venues Kiri Te Kanawa at Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s 30 October 2011 Ulster Hall Hansel & Gretel by Humperdinck 24 - 26 November 2011 Grand Opera House, Belfast 12 January 2012 Principal Millennium Forum, Derry Funder Turn of the Screw by Britten March 2012 Tel 028 9027 7734 NI tour, various venues www.niopera.com 8 Orpheus in the Underworld Orpheus in the Underworld 9 The Company Jacques Offenbach The Cast Born: Cologne-Deutz, 1819 Orpheus Jupiter Juno Died: Paris, 1880 Nicholas Sharratt Brendan Collins Olivia Ray Offenbach’s father was a minor German Jewish The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 wrecked Offenbach’s Eurydice Diana Mercury composer who in 1808 changed the family’s surname popularity. He was suspected of being a German spy Jane Harrington Daire Halpin Christopher Diffey to that of his birthplace. Young Jacob (later Jacques) and fled to Spain, Italy and Austria. Returning to Public Opinion Aristaeus (aka Pluto) trained at the Paris Conservatoire as a cellist but ran Paris after the fall of Napoleon III, Offenbach was Máire Flavin Gavan Ring out of money after a year. Fortunately he found a job accused of having undermined the Second Empire by Mars/John Styx Venus as cellist in the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique. Here ‘turning royalty into a farce and the army into a joke’. Ross McInroy * Marie Claire Breen † he made his name as a virtuoso, even appearing on By 1875 he was bankrupt but he remade some of his * The Robertson Scholarship Trust Scottish Opera Emerging Artist, 2011/12 the concert platform variously alongside Rubinstein, fortune touring the USA in 1876. † Scottish Opera Emerging Artist, 2011/12 Liszt and Mendelssohn. Offenbach’s last opera, Les contes d’Hoffmann, was Returning to Paris after the violence of the 1848 left unfinished when the composer died in Paris Creative Team revolution, Offenbach became conductor of the in 1880. It was premiered the following year at the Conductor Director Set and Costume Designer Théâtre Français but found it difficult to promote Opéra-Comique, an act of rehabilitation for this most Derek Clark Oliver Mears Simon Holdsworth his own compositions, so in 1855 he founded his Parisian of composers. Movement Director Staff Producer Lighting Designer own theatre on the Champs-Élysées, Les Bouffes- Anna Morrissey Danielle Urbas Kevin Treacy Parisiens. Here he developed the Offenbach style Adrian Mourby of operetta – witty and satiric with clever parodies of grand opera. Licensing laws initially limited Northern Ireland Opera Orchestra Offenbach to single-act operettas, but after these Violin Double Bass Double Bass Clarinet restrictions were lifted in 1858 he was able to stage Alan McClure Martina Masterson Gillian McCutecheon full-length works such as the subversive Orphee aux enfers (1858), La belle Helene (1864), the hedonistic La Alys Jackson Flute Trumpet vie parisienne (1866) and La Perichole (1868). Viola Colin Irvine Hugh Carslaw Sally Butler Clarinet Percussion Cello Damian Frame Malcolm Neale Andrew Sinclair Technical Staff Production Manager Technical Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Darren Joyce Amy Burkitt-Harrington Emma Butchart (Wardrobe) Costume Supervisor Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Gloria del Monte Hannah Boustred Kenneth Kelly (Props) Lighting Supervisors Touring Manager Assistant Stage Manager Andrew Burnside Stephanie Collier John Crawford (Technical) Stephen Powlesr 10 Orpheus in the Underworld Orpheus in the Underworld 11 The Story PROLOGUE Public Opinion explains her role as guardian of public morality. ACT I Scene 1 – Earth ACT I Scene 2 – Olympus ACT II Scene 1 – Hades ACT II Scene 2 – Hades Orpheus, a famous composer, lives unhappily The gods are bored of their luxurious life on Olympus, Eurydice is being kept locked up in Hades, and is tired All the gods, together with Eurydice disguised as a with his wife, Eurydice, who has married him and long for some excitement. Venus and then Diana of it. Her dim-witted jailer, John Styx, is not helping: Bacchante, arrive at Pluto’s party and quickly get for his money and fame, but not for his music arrive, telling of their exploits, but nothing can rouse he has the hots for Eurydice,and at the slightest into the spirit of Hades. Everyone joins in the infernal (which she detests). the other gods from their torpor. They complain to provocation tells the story of how he used to be a great galop, or ‘cancan’. Jupiter seizes this moment to Jupiter, but their appeals fall on deaf ears: he cares man. Obeying Pluto’s orders to conceal Eurydice escape with his lover – but Pluto has spotted them, Eurydice sings a song to, and prepares for, her lover: only about appearances and his own power. from visitors, Styx ushers her out just as Pluto and confronts Jupiter. she is having an affair with Aristaeus. Orpheus arrives to show Jupiter that he’s concealing no one. arrives, initially mistaking Eurydice for his own lover, Juno and Jupiter argue about the latter’s infidelity Pluto thinks he has managed to hoodwink Jupiter, Public Opinion and Orpheus arrive: reluctant as ever, Maquilla.
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