In Claudio Monteverdi’s opera »L’Orfeo« the poet Orpheus wants to bring back his beloved wife Euridice from the underworld. The decisive question for set designer Jakob Brossmann is therefore how to represent the upper world and underworld on the opera stage. For Nikolaus Habjan’s new staging of »L’Orfeo«, Jakob Brossmann has designed an olive tree as the main element, which takes root in the underworld and grows into the upper world, bringing life back from death as a symbol of nature.