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Orpheus in the Underworld : Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld: Jacques OFFENBACH : Orphée aux enfers, ouverture. Cancan final (Live)
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About "Orpheus in the Underworld : Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld: Jacques OFFENBACH : Orphée aux enfers, ouverture. Cancan final (Live)" by Wiener Philharmoniker
Offenbach’s overture begins with mock solemnity before erupting into the infamous cancan—a whirl of satirical brass and percussion. The Wiener Philharmoniker capture the delicious tension between bourgeois propriety and underworld chaos, each accelerating phrase a wink at the gods, a heel kicked up in defiance.