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
The Temple in the Underworld uses samples from Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata". A music video was made for the track "Aposiopesis". "The Temple in the Underworld" has received positive reviews. MetalReviews.com gave it a 87 out of 100, stating: "[Its] riffs are simply amazing, prog-tinged creations of epic melody that will have you gasping with pleasurable shock even as you headbang. Seriously, the hordes of thrashers out there will have their socks blown off by even a few seconds of first track proper 'Casilda's Song', which starts out with epic heavy metal and builds until Big Boss begins to sing and snarl in his