High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Orphee aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld), opera bouffe (or opera feerie in its revised version), is an operetta by Jacques Offenbach. The French text was written by Ludovic Halevy and later revised by Hector-Jonathan Cremieux. The work, first performed in 1858, is said to be the first classical full-length operetta. Offenbach's earlier operettas were small-scale one-act works, since the law in France did not allow certain genres of full-length works. Orpheus was not only longer, but more musically adventurous than Offenbach's earlier pieces. This marked also the first time that Offenbach used Greek mythology as a backdrop for one of his buffooneries. The operetta is an irreverent parody and scathing satire on Gluck and his Orfeo ed Euridice and culminated in the risque galop infernal (often copied, widely used as the background music for the Can-can dance, and erroneously called "Can-can") that shocked some in the audience at the premiere.

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