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Orpheus in the Underworld, an album by Don Shirley (1956) Orpheus, a song by New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, from Reflections (Manos Hatzidakis album) (1970) Orpheus and Eurydice, a rock opera album by Alexander Zhurbin (1975) The Mask of Orpheus, an opera by composer Harrison Birtwistle and librettist Peter Zinovieff (1986)
Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1806, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Eurydice was the Auloniad wife of musician Orpheus, [4] [5] [6] who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow.
Euripides and Plato both refer to the story of his descent to recover his wife, but do not mention her name; a contemporary relief (about 400 BC) shows Orpheus and his wife with Hermes. The elegiac poet Hermesianax called her Agriope ; and the first mention of her name in literature is in the Lament for Bion (1st century BC).
Orpheus Playing the Violin, 17th-century painting by Cesare Gennari. Operas based on the Orphean myths, and especially the story of Orpheus' journey to the underworld to rescue his wife, Eurydice, were amongst the earliest examples of the art form and continue to be written into the 21st century.
Hadestown is the fourth studio album by American folk singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, and was released by Righteous Babe Records on March 9, 2010. The concept album, which became the basis for the stage musical of the same name, follows a variation on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, where Orpheus must embark on a quest to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld.
Orfeo ed Euridice ([orˈfɛ.o e.d‿ewˈri.di.t͡ʃe]; French: Orphée et Eurydice; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi.
Paul Studer, 71, from York, previously recorded with the well-known orchestra to release his album, All My Love, which was written in memory of his wife, Diane, who died with bowel cancer on ...
Euridice (also Erudice or Eurydice) is an opera by Jacopo Peri, with additional music by Giulio Caccini.It is the earliest surviving opera, Peri's earlier Dafne being lost. . (Caccini wrote his own "Euridice" even as he supplied music to Peri's opera, published this version before Peri's was performed, in 1600, and got it staged two years lat