During the years of the Second Empire, the operettas of Jacques Offenbach kept Parisian audiences delightedly dizzy with their roundelays of sexual hijinx, with music to match. Word-for-word and ...

The George Gershwin of France’s Second Empire was mutton-chop-whiskered Jacques Offenbach. Stuffy politicians, high-toned artists, bombastic literati winced at his satirical songs. All Paris, from the ...

Offenbach, who also launched avant-garde innovations in stagecraft and design, played a leading role in cultural change, not only in music but also in literature, art, and politics, as he offered an ...

Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld” is a parody of opera’s founding myth; a satire of 19th-century Parisian society (particularly its marriages); and a journey to music’s most famous cancan.

Operagoers got a flashback to 1998 at the Metropolitan Opera last Thursday. It was the beginning of the second act Operagoers got a flashback to 1998 at the Metropolitan Opera last Thursday. It was ...