Opera Nova Bydgoszcz and on July 2, Offenbach's operetta "Orpheus in the Underworld". "Opera Studio" was renamed on March 3, 1959, "Musical Theatre of Opera and Operetta" (), so as to meet cultural expectations of the inhabitants of the entire Bydgoszcz Voivodeship. A year later, on March 1, 1960, the institution was nationalized. In 1963, the "Musical Theatre of Opera and Operetta" had then its own orchestra established, putting an end to the use of musicians from the Pomeranian Philharmonic. Bydgoszcz musical scene, once nationalised, changed its name several times: "Opera and Operetta" (1964), "National Opera" (1980), "Opera Nova" (1990), and from 1996,
Orpheus (ballet) missing entirely. Also strikingly different from "The Rite of Spring" is the absence of a percussion section and the use of only one timpanist. There is an important role for the harp in "Orpheus". This has a long tradition in classical music, in which the character of Orpheus is associated with that instrument, by analogy with the Ancient Greek lyre. Two important examples of this may be mentioned: Gluck’s opera "Orfeo ed Euridice" and Liszt’s symphonic poem "Orpheus. Stravinsky's Neoclassicism occasionally extends to parody; one of the most extended examples in his work is to be found in the Air