Gods and Goddesses at Play
HE radio adaptation of Offenbach’s operetta Orpheus in the Underworld was a sheer delight. It has been heard from 4YA, and if other stations have not already included it in their programmes listeners should be on the lookout for its appearance. One thing that strikes the listener about it is’ "Why haven’t we had this before?" Of course we all know a bit of it-that part of the Overture where the famous Can Can is heard; to me the liveliest and most exciting light music ever written. But the rest of the operetta is too good not to have been heard on the air before this, and it is to the BBC again that we owe our grateful thanks for this presentation, which has been "done into English" by Geoffrey Dunn. I have no means of knowing just how much of the humour is in the original script, and how much is owed to the arranger of the words, but as given here, the frolic of the mythical kingdom of gods and goddesses was as effervescent as champagne. I hope 4YA will find, time to repeat this programme at a not-too-distant date. ;
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 9
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