Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast (two act version), 21 October 1858 (Conductor: Jacques Offenbach ) |
Premiere cast (four act version), 7 February 1874 (Conductor: Jacques Offenbach ) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cupidon (Cupid), god of love | soprano | Coralie Guffroy | Matz-Ferrare |
| Diane (Diana), goddess of chastity | soprano | Chabert | Berthe Perret |
| Eurydice, wife of Orphée | soprano | Lise Tautin | Marie Cico |
| John Styx, servant of Pluton, formerly king of Boeotia | baritone or tenor | Debruille-Bache | Alexandre |
| Junon (Juno), wife of Jupiter | mezzo-soprano | Marguerite Chabert | Lyon |
| Jupiter, king of the gods | baritone | Désiré | Christian |
| L'Opinion Publique (Public Opinion) | mezzo-soprano | Marguerite Macé-Montrouge | Elvire Gilbert |
| Mars, god of war | bass | Floquet | |
| Mercure (Mercury), messenger of the gods | tenor | Jean-François Philbert | Pierre Grivot |
| Minerve (Minerva), goddess of wisdom | soprano | Marie Cico | |
| Morphée (Morpheus), god of sleep | tenor | Marchand | |
| Orphée (Orpheus), a musician | tenor | Tayau | Meyronnet |
| Pluton (Pluto), god of the underworld, disguised as Aristée (Aristaeus), a farmer | tenor | Léonce | Montaubry |
| Vénus (Venus), goddess of beauty | contralto | Marie Garnier | Angèle |
| Amour | mezzo-soprano | Gervais/Enjalbert | Matz-Ferrare |
| Bacchus, god of wine | spoken | Antognini | |
| Cerbère (Cerberus), three-headed guardian of the underworld | barked | Tautin snr. | |
| Minos | baritone/tenor | Georges Dejon-Marchand | |
| Éaque (Aeacus) | tenor | -- | |
| Rhadamante (Rhadamanthus) | bass | -- | |
| Gods, goddesses, shepherds, shepherdesses, lictors and spirits in the underworld | |||
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