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===France=== [[File:Atelier Nadar - Fly scene from Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers with Jeanne Granier as Eurydice and Eugène Vauthier as Jupiter, 1887 revival, wide-angle shot.jpg|thumb|alt=man dressed as a giant fly hovering over a reclining young woman|upright=1.5|right|[[Jeanne Granier]] and [[Eugène Vauthier]] as Eurydice and Jupiter, 1887 – {{lang|fr|"Bel insecte à l'aile dorée"}}]] Between the first run and the first Paris revival, in 1860, the Bouffes-Parisiens company toured the French provinces, where {{lang|fr|Orphée aux enfers}} was reported as meeting with "immense" and "incredible" success".<ref name=mw>"Music and Theatres in Paris", ''The Musical World'', 1 September 1860, p. 552; and "Petit Journal", ''Le Figaro'', 20 September 1860, p. 7 (in French)</ref> Tautin was succeeded as Eurydice by [[Delphine Ugalde]] when the production was revived at the Bouffes-Parisiens in 1862 and again in 1867.<ref name=g276/> The first revival of the 1874 version was at the Théâtre de la Gaîté in 1875 with Marie Blanche Peschard as Eurydice.<ref name=g276>Gänzl and Lamb, p. 276</ref> It was revived again there in January 1878 with Meyronnet (Orphée), Peschard (Eurydice), [[Christian Perrin|Christian]] (Jupiter), Habay (Pluton) and [[Pierre Grivot]] as both Mercure and John Styx,<ref>Noël and Stoullig (1879), p. 354</ref> For the [[Exposition Universelle (1878)|Exposition Universelle]] season later that year Offenbach revived the piece again,<ref>Gammond, pp. 124–125</ref> with Grivot as Orphée, Peschard as Eurydice,<ref name=n364/> the composer's old friend and rival [[Hervé (composer)|Hervé]] as Jupiter<ref>Yon, p. 581, and Gammond, p. 124</ref> and Léonce as Pluton.<ref name=n364>Noël and Stoullig (1879), p. 364</ref> The opera was seen again at the Gaîté in 1887 with Taufenberger (Orphée), [[Jeanne Granier]] (Eurydice), [[Eugène Vauthier]] (Jupiter) and Alexandre (Pluton).<ref>Noel and Stoullig (1888), p. 287</ref> There was a revival at the [[Éden-Théâtre]] (1889) with Minart, Granier, Christian and Alexandre.<ref>Noël and Stoullig (1890), p. 385</ref> 20th-century revivals in Paris included productions at the Théâtre des Variétés (1902) with Charles Prince (Orphée), Juliette Méaly (Eurydice), Guy (Jupiter) and [[Albert Brasseur]] (Pluton),<ref>Stoullig, p. 225</ref> and in 1912 with Paul Bourillon, Méaly, Guy and Prince;<ref>[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5354235/f3.item.r=Guy%20Jupiter%20Offenbach.zoom "Courrier des Spectacles"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507090036/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5354235/f3.item.r%3DGuy%2520Jupiter%2520Offenbach.zoom |date=2019-05-07 }}, ''Le Gaulois: littéraire et politique'', 10 May 1912, p. 1 (in French)</ref> the [[Théâtre Mogador]] (1931) with Adrien Lamy, Manse Beaujon, [[Max Dearly]] and [[Lucien Muratore]];<ref>[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k296819f/f6.item.r=Orphee%20Jupiter%20Eurydice.zoom "Orphée aux enfers au Théâtre Mogador"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507090036/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k296819f/f6.item.r%3DOrphee%2520Jupiter%2520Eurydice.zoom |date=2019-05-07 }}, ''Le Figaro'', 22 December 1931, p. 6 (in French)</ref> the [[Opéra-Comique]] (1970) with Rémy Corazza, Anne-Marie Sanial, [[Michel Roux (baritone)|Michel Roux]] and Robert Andreozzi;<ref>[https://data.bnf.fr/fr/42610700/orphee_aux_enfers_spectacle_1970/ "Orphée aux enfers"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426215041/https://data.bnf.fr/fr/42610700/orphee_aux_enfers_spectacle_1970/ |date=2019-04-26 }}, Bibliothèque nationale de France. (in French) Retrieved 26 April 2019</ref> the Théâtre de la Gaïté-Lyrique (1972) with [[Jean Giraudeau]], Jean Brun, Albert Voli and Sanial; and by the Théâtre français de l'Opérette at the Espace Cardin (1984) with multiple casts including (in alphabetical order) [[André Dran]], Maarten Koningsberger, Martine March, Martine Masquelin, Marcel Quillevere, Ghyslaine Raphanel, [[Bernard Sinclair]] and [[Michel Trempont]].<ref name=g276/> In January 1988 the work received its first performances at the [[Paris Opéra]], with [[Michel Sénéchal]] (Orphée), Danielle Borst (Eurydice), [[François Le Roux]] (Jupiter), and [[Laurence Dale]] (Pluton).<ref>De Brancovan, Mihai. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/44184939 "La Vie Musicale"]''Revue des Deux Mondes'', March 1988, pp. 217–218 (in French) {{subscription required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430045816/https://www.jstor.org/stable/44184939 |date=2019-04-30 }}</ref> In December 1997 a production by [[Laurent Pelly]] was seen at the [[Opéra National de Lyon]], where it was filmed for DVD, with [[Yann Beuron]] (Orphée), [[Natalie Dessay]] (Eurydice), [[Laurent Naouri]] (Jupiter) and [[Jean-Paul Fouchécourt]] (Pluton) with [[Marc Minkowski]] conducting.<ref name=lyon/> The production originated in Geneva, where it had been given in September – in a former hydroelectric plant used while the stage area of the [[Grand Théâtre de Genève|Grand Théâtre]] was being renovated – by a cast headed by Beuron, [[Annick Massis]], Naouri, and [[Éric Huchet]].<ref>Kasow, J. "Massis's Eurydice – report from Geneva", ''[[Opera Magazine|Opera]],'' January 1998, pp. 101–102</ref>
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