Walking into Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater on Monday made it pretty obvious that a Douglas Anderson production was underway — there were two Las Vegas-style slot machines on stage, and they were ...

It almost collapsed — and yet Friday’s opening night of Opera Company of Middlebury’s production of Jacques Offenbach’s “Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld),” to say the least, was ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. KEENE, N.H. -- Jacques Offenbach's satirical operetta, "Orphee aux enfers" (Orpheus in the Underworld) was a smash hit in 1858 and revised as an ...

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 ...

In this comic operetta, Offenbach turns the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice upside down. Instead of a tale of courage and undying love, in which a husband goes into Hell to save his wife — the tale at ...