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Orpheus and Eurydice in Palais Garnier, Paris.Their names are in Greek, ΟΡΦΕΥΣ (Orpheus) and ΕΥΡΥΔΙΚΗ (Eurydice). In Virgil's classic version of the legend, it completes his Georgics, a poem on the subject of agriculture.
Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell.It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her.
The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene is a poem by the Scottish Northern Renaissance poet Robert Henryson that adapts and develops the Greek myth which most famously appears in two classic Latin texts, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and the Georgics of Virgil. Jacopo del Sellaio, Orpheus and Eurydice, c.1480
Eurydice's father reads to her from King Lear in a Shimer College production of Eurydice. The play consists of three movements, divided into numerous scenes: 7 in the first movement, 20 in the second movement, and 3 in the third movement. The play begins with Eurydice and Orpheus, two young lovers, who are about to get married.
Eurydice is the daughter of the leading actress in a second-rate acting troupe. The troupe is waiting in a train station. Orphée is a violinist at the station restaurant. Eurydice and Orphée meet and fall in love instantly. Eurydice rejects the advances of a young man named Matthew—who is her lover and a fellow member of the troupe.
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been depicted in a number of works by artists, including Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, and Corot. [13] More recently, the story has been depicted by Bracha Ettinger , whose series, Eurydice , was exhibited in the Pompidou Centre ( Face à l'Histoire , 1996); the Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam ...
Orfeo (Orpheus) is an opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue by the Italian composer Luigi Rossi. The libretto, by Francesco Buti, is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orfeo premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on 2 March 1647. [1] It was one of the earliest operas to be staged in France.
In ancient Greek religion, The Gaze of Orpheus is derived from the antiquarian Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.In the story of Orpheus, the poet descends to the underworld to retrieve his wife, Eurydice from premature death, only on Hades’ and Persephone's condition that he does not look at her during the process.