Orphée aux enfers (Offenbach, Jacques)

Title Orphée aux enfers
Alternative title Opéra bouffe en deux actes ; Opéra féerie en quatre actes
Creators Jacques Offenbach, composer
Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, librettist
Ludovic Halévy, librettist
Opus
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus and orchestra
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Composed 1858
First published 1858
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Composition types Operas bouffes, Fairy operas
Language French
Period Romantic
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Arrangements

Details Section Arranged for Arranger
View Complete: 2-Act Version (1858) piano
View Menuet (Act II, No.15a) piano
View Can-can (Act II, No.15b) horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba Wayne Beardwood
View Can-can (Act II, No.15b) piano Roberto Novegno

Scores

Details Section Type Publisher Date File (click to view)
View Complete: 2-Act Version (1858) parts Manuscript 1862 Flute 1/2
Oboe
Clarinet 1/2 (B, A, C)
Bassoon
Horn 1/2 (F, E, G, D, A, A)
Cornet 1/2 (B, A)
Trombone
Timpani
Bass Drum
Violin solo
Violins I (copy 1)
Violins I (copy 2)
Violins I (copy 3)
Violins II
Violas (copy 1)
Violas (copy 3)
Cellos
Basses
View Complete: 2-Act Version (1858) vocal score Heugel 1858 Complete Score (monochrome)
Complete Score (grayscale)
View Complete: 2-Act Version (1858) vocal score Complete Score
View Complete: 2-Act Version (1858) vocal score Complete Score
View Complete: 4-Act Version (1874) vocal score Heugel 1874 Complete Score
View Complete: 4-Act Version (1874) vocal score Heugel 1874 Complete Score
View Selections: 2-Act Version (1858) vocal score Heugel 1858 No.2, Couplets du roi de Béotie (Act II, No.11), G major : for low voice
No.3, Hymne à Bacchus (Act II, No.14bis), F major : for low voice
No.1, Couplets à Jupin (Act I, No.8), G major : original key
No.4, Chanson pastorale d'Aristée (Act I, No.3), G major : original key
View Selections: 2-Act Version (1858) vocal score Heugel 1858 Évohé. Hymne à Bacchus (Act II, No.14bis), G major
View Selections: 2-Act Version (1858) vocal score Heugel 1858 No.8, Rondo: Les métamorphoses de Jupiter (Act I, No.8), G major
No.10, Couplets du roi de Béotie (Act II, No.11), A major
No.13, Hymne à Bacchus (Act II, No.14bis), A major
View Selections: 2-Act Version (1858) vocal score Heugel 1860 No.1, Couplets du berger joli: "La femme dont le cœur rêve" (Act I, No.1bis)
No.2, Duo du concerto avec solo du violon: "Ah! c'est ainsi!" (Act I, No.2)
No.4, Évocation à la mort: "La mort m'appararait souriante" (Act I, No.4)
No.5, Duettino de l'honneur et de l'amour: "Viens!" (Act I, No.5b)
No.6, Couplets de Cupidon et de Vénus: "Je suis Cupidon!" (Act I, No.6b)
No.7, Ronde de Diane et Actéon: "Quand Diane descends dans la plaine" (Act I, No.6d)
No.9, Couplets à Jupin: "Pour séduire Alcmène la fière" (Act I, No.8)
No.12, Duo de la mouche: "Il m'a semblé sur mon épaule" (Act II, No.12)
View Selections: 2-Act Version (1858) vocal score Can-can, ''Galop infernal'' (Act II, No.15b)
View Selections: 4-Act Version (1874) vocal score Heugel 1874 No.7, Couplets: "C'est l'opinion publique" (Act I, No.7c)
No.7bis, Valse des petites violonistes: "Ah! ces adieux" (Act I, No.7d)
No.12, Rondo-saltarelle de Mercure: "Eh! hop, eh! hop" (Act II, No.12)
No.13, Air en prose de Pluton: "Ah! avec quelle volupté" (Act II, No.13)
No.18, Couplets des regrets: "Ah! quelle triste destinée" (Act III, No.18)
No.19bis, Couplets: "Quand j'étais roi de Béotie" (Act III, No.19), G major
No.21, Ronde des policemen: "Nez au vent, œil au guet" (Act III, No.21)
No.22, Couplets des baisers: "Pour attirer du fond de sa retraîte" (Act III, No.22)
No.23, Ronde enfantine: "Le beau bourdon" (Act III, No.23)
No.27, Hymne à Bacchus: "J'ai vu le Dieu Bacchus" (Act IV, No.27)
View Complete: 2-Act Version (1858) Arrangement for piano Heugel 1862 Complete Score
View Menuet (Act II, No.15a) Arrangement for piano Complete Score
View Can-can (Act II, No.15b) Arrangement for horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba
by Wayne Beardwood
Complete Score
Trumpet
Horn
Trombone
Tuba
View Can-can (Act II, No.15b) Arrangement for piano
by Roberto Novegno
Complete Score

Recordings/Performances

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View Synthesized Selections Orchestra (Simons) Petit Galop ("Can-can")
View Synthesized Selections Piano solo (Novegno) Can-Can (Galop Infernal)


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