Orphée aux enfers

I did a presentation for my class on the Orpheus myth in music on Monday and just wanted to share this with everyone because even if you don't like opera, this is just such a good version of a whicked funny duet, which was in fact composed and premiered in 1858 in Paris. And it shocked even the Parisians. 
Just to prepare you for the scene, you're about to see Jupiter (Zeus) disguised as a fly seducing Euridice, who in this parody of the Orpheus myth, fell in love with Pluto, who was disguised as a shepherd and bee keeper, got bitten by a snake "by accident" and descended to Hades to be his girlfriend. Pluto made the mistake of leaving her alone for like 3 days while dealing with business in Mount Olympus, so that she  got bored enough to be turned on by a fly. Oh Offenbach, gotta love you.
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For my other musicology class, I was originally going to present on piano Romances by Clara Schumann, but I wasn't there the night they discussed the dates of the extra block classes and apparently someone got confused and took my topic. I was going to switch to something else by either Chopin or Schumann, and then the professor told me today that whoever had had Schumann's "Carnaval" dropped it, so now it's mine!!!! yessssss.