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Orpheus in the Underworld
Orphée aux enfers,
whose title translates from the French as
Orpheus
in the Underworld,
is an
opéra bouffe
(a form of
operetta
), or
opéra féerie
in its revised version. Its score was composed by
Jacques Offenbach
to a French text written by
Ludovic Halévy
and later revised by
Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
.
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