Orpheus in the Underworld Orpheus in the Underworld Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is an opéra bouffon (a form of operetta), or opéra féerie in its revised version. Its score was composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French text written by Ludovic Halévy and later revised by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux. The work, first performed in 1858, is said to be the first classical full-length operetta. Offenbach's earlier operettas were small-scale one-act works, since the law in France did not allow full-length works of certain genres. "Orpheus" was not only longer, but more musically adventurous than Offenbach's
Shredder Orpheus Shredder Orpheus Shredder Orpheus is a 1990 film that has later become a cult classic. It was Amy Denio's film debut. Orpheus heads to the underworld with a skateboard and a guitar to save people from television mind control. The film was shown at BAM Rose Cinemas on September 23, 2013. It was later shown again at The Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the theater's "Trash Night" on May 19, 2015. On November 11, 2014, the film's remastered soundtrack was released on vinyl by Light in the Attic Records under its Traction imprint. The music was composed