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(Note: This is a version with English lyrics called "Carnival") The Modern Jazz Quartet, on The Sheriff (1964) Harry James, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Album, MGM SE 4214 (USA), 1964 (Note: This is an instrumental version entitled "Theme from Orfeu Negro") Dinah Shore, sings (in Portuguese) on ABC TV, USA 1964.
Orpheus's mother taught him to make verses for singing. He is also said to have studied in Egypt. [54] Orpheus is said to have established the worship of Hecate in Aegina. [55] In Laconia Orpheus is said to have brought the worship of Demeter Chthonia [56] and that of the Κόρες Σωτείρας (Kóres Sōteíras; 'Saviour Maidens').
L'Orfeo (SV 318) (Italian pronunciation: [lorˈfɛːo]), or La favola d'Orfeo [la ˈfaːvola dorˈfɛːo], is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.
Ibycus provided the first attestation of an historical Thracian or Thraco-Dacian bard Orpheus, purported composer of the Orphic Hymns; ("The earliest literary reference to Orpheus is a two-word fragment of the 6th century BC lyric poet Ibycus of Samos: onomaklyton Orphēn ('Orpheus famous-of-name')."), whose name might indicate an origin in ...
The Orphic Hymns are a collection of eighty-seven ancient Greek hymns addressed to various deities, which were attributed to the mythical poet Orpheus in antiquity. They were composed in Asia Minor, most likely around the time of the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD, and were used in the rites of a religious community which existed in the region.
Orpheus, a song by English singer-songwriter David Sylvian from the album Secrets of the Beehive (1987) Orpheus & Eurdice , a song cycle in two acts, by Ricky Ian Gordon (2001) Metamorpheus , an orchestral album by former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett (2005)
"A felicidade" ("Happiness") is a bossa nova song by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes, composed in 1958 for the French film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). [1] The theme of the song is the fragility of happiness. The lyrics begin: "Tristeza não tem fim. Felicidade sim" ("Sadness has no ending. Happiness does").
("Here is Orpheus, for whom sighs were food") Act 2 Orchestra Sinfonia Orfeo, pastori secondo e terzo Ecco pur ch'a voi ritorno ("Behold I return to you") Sections interspersed with ritornelli Coro di ninfi e pastori Dunque fa' degni, Orfeo ("Then, Orpheus, make worthy") Followed by ritornello Orfeo Vi ricorda, o boschi ombrosi