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Go to Hell for a Flaming Good Holiday - Orpheus in the Underworld
Poster ID: CL50506
Category: Music/Opera
Designer: Gerald Scarfe
Year: 1980s
Country: British
Approximate Size 30 x 20 inches
Condition: Very Good
Price: $300

Orpheus in the Underworld David Pountney, the Artistic Director of the ENO, saw a drawing I had made of the ENO production of Wagner's The Valkyrie at the Coliseum in the Sunday Times, and subsequently commissioned me to design Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld in 1984. David wanted the production set in a Victorian lunatic asylum. I felt constricted by the idea, and wanted to create my own world. There seems to be a convention of transporting operas to another time.

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