DESCRIPTION:
From Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Sadler's Wells 1960.
John Styx/Charon the gaoler/ferryman sings this to the beautiful Eurydice during a lull in the action.
Another song from this production http://youtu.be/nCwEKP_DmZE



(King of the Boeotians / Boeotia, Alan Crofoot)