# Poster for Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CHÉRET, Jules]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Lithograph, 127 x 90 cm ## Commentary Orpheus in the Underworld \(French Orphée aux enfers\) is comic operetta by French composer Jacques Offenbach \(French libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy\), a satirical treatment of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus. It premiered on October 21, 1858, at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris. The work's best-known music is the cancan that appears in the overture and the final scene. The work was originally structured in two acts, though Offenbach later expanded it into four acts. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 4 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/offenbach\_orpheus.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld, overture</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Au Quartier Latin]() - [Bal au Moulin Rouge]() - [Book jacket]() - [Champs-Elysées, Palais de Glace]() - [Folies-Bergère. Loïe Fuller]() - [Les Girard]() - [Palais de Glace Champs Elysées]() - [Purgatif Géraudel \(Géraudel purgatives\)]() - [Saxoléine]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()