Editing Orpheus in the Underworld (section)

===Revised 1874 version===
The plot is essentially that of the 1858 version. Instead of two acts with two scenes apiece, the later version is in four acts, which follow the plot of the four scenes of the original. The revised version differs from the first in having several interpolated ballet sequences, and some extra characters and musical numbers. The additions do not affect the main narrative but add considerably to the length of the score.{{refn|The 1858 version of the vocal score runs to 147 pages; the 1874 vocal score issued by the same firm is 301 pages long.<ref name=simeone/>|group=n|name=long}} In Act I there is an opening chorus for assembled shepherds and shepherdesses, and Orpheus has a group of youthful violin students, who bid him farewell at the end of the act. In Act 2 Mercure is given a solo entrance number ({{lang|fr|"Eh hop!"}}). In Act 3, Eurydice has a new solo, the {{lang|fr|"Couplets des regrets"}} ({{lang|fr|"Ah! quelle triste destinée!"}}), Cupidon has a new number, the {{lang|fr|"Couplets des baisers"}} ({{lang|fr|"Allons, mes fins limiers"}}), the three judges of Hades and a little band of policemen are added to the cast to be involved in Jupiter's search for the concealed Eurydice, and at the end of the act the furious Pluton is seized and carried off by a swarm of flies.<ref name=simeone/><ref>Notes to EMI LP set SLS 5175 (1979) {{oclc|869200562}}</ref>