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Despite some severe restrictions--thanks to some weird laws in force at the time,[[note]]It being the height of the [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem Second Empire]], which drew its support from more conservative elements in French society, "traditional morality" was the rule of the day.[[/note]] he was at first forced to write for a tiny (300-seat) theatre putting on shows with a maximum of three singing/speaking parts--Offenbach made himself the king of the Parisian comic stage. It's in this circumstance that he ended up writing ''Orphée aux enfers'' (''Theatre/OrpheusInTheUnderworld''), reimagining the story of Orpheus and Eurydice (a famous one in opera) as the tale of a middle-class man and his wife getting up to some truly scandalous shenanigans. Hence the famous cancan--the dance is nothing if not scandalous.
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Despite some severe restrictions--thanks to some weird laws in force at the time,[[note]]It being the height of the [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem Second Empire]], which drew its support from more conservative elements in French society, "traditional morality" was the rule of the day.[[/note]] he was at first forced to write for a tiny (300-seat) theatre putting on shows with a maximum of three singing/speaking parts--Offenbach made himself the king of the Parisian comic stage. It's in this circumstance that he ended up writing ''Orphée aux enfers'' (''Theatre/OrpheusInTheUnderworld''), reimagining the story of Orpheus and Eurydice (a famous one in opera) as the tale of a middle-class man and his wife getting up to some truly scandalous shenanigans. Hence the famous cancan--the dance is nothing if not scandalous.
scandalous.[[note]]Even though it didn't become the can-can tune until years later when the Moulin Rouge set the cancan to the song.[[/note]]
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* {{Ruritania}}'': "Gerolstein" in his operetta "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein" is probably the UrExample. There is a real place called Gerolstein, a spa north of Trier whose "Gerolsteiner" mineral water is the default brand in a large portion of western Germany, but it has never been the seat of a Grand Duchy.
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* {{Ruritania}}'': {{Ruritania}}: "Gerolstein" in his operetta "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein" is probably the UrExample. There is a real place called Gerolstein, a spa north of Trier whose "Gerolsteiner" mineral water is the default brand in a large portion of western Germany, but it has never been the seat of a Grand Duchy.
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* {{Ruritania}}'': "Gerolstein" in his operetta "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein" is probably the UrExample. There is a real place called Gerolstein, a spa north of Trier whose "Gerolsteiner" mineral water is the default brand in a large portion of western Germany, but it has never been the seat of a Grand Duchy.
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* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: Pluton kidnaps Eurydice in ''Orpheus in the Underworld'' to have her. Jupiter then frees her for the same reason...but Jupiter's such a fun guy that she doesn't care (he's better than stupid boring Orpheus!).
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* AHellOfATime: The Underworld in ''Orpheus in the Underworld'' is a barrel of fun, which is why Eurydice doesn't want to go home with boring old Orpheus.
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* ToHellAndBack: ''Orphée aux enfers'': This is what Orphée's ''plan'' is. But Eurydice has other ideas...
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Despite some severe restrictions--thanks to some weird laws in force at the time,[[note]]It being the height of the [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem Second Empire]], which drew its support from more conservative elements in French society, "traditional morality" was the rule of the day.[[/note]] he was at first forced to write for a tiny (300-seat) theatre putting on shows with a maximum of three singing/speaking parts--Offenbach made himself the king of the Parisian comic stage. It's in this circumstance that he ended up writing ''Orphée aux enfers'' (''Orpheus in the Underworld''), reimagining the story of Orpheus and Eurydice (a famous one in opera) as the tale of a middle-class man and his wife getting up to some truly scandalous shenanigans. Hence the famous cancan--the dance is nothing if not scandalous.
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Despite some severe restrictions--thanks to some weird laws in force at the time,[[note]]It being the height of the [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem Second Empire]], which drew its support from more conservative elements in French society, "traditional morality" was the rule of the day.[[/note]] he was at first forced to write for a tiny (300-seat) theatre putting on shows with a maximum of three singing/speaking parts--Offenbach made himself the king of the Parisian comic stage. It's in this circumstance that he ended up writing ''Orphée aux enfers'' (''Orpheus in the Underworld''), (''Theatre/OrpheusInTheUnderworld''), reimagining the story of Orpheus and Eurydice (a famous one in opera) as the tale of a middle-class man and his wife getting up to some truly scandalous shenanigans. Hence the famous cancan--the dance is nothing if not scandalous.
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