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 in the Underworld dance minuets which everyone else finds boring and awful ("La la la. Le menuet n'est vraiment si charmant"). Things liven up, though, as the most famous number in the operetta, the Galop Infernal (best known as the music of the can-can) starts, and everyone throws himself into it with wild abandon ("Ce bal est original"). Ominous violin music heralds the approach of Orphée (Entrance of Orphée and Public Opinion), but Jupiter has a plan, and promises to keep Eurydice away from him. As with the standard myth, Orphée must not look back, or he will lose Eurydice forever ("Ne regarde