• Thumbnail for Orpheus and Eurydice
    Orpheus and Eurydice (Greek: Ὀρφεύς, Εὐρυδίκη, Orpheus, Eurydikē) concerns the fateful love of Orpheus of Thrace for the beautiful Eurydice. Orpheus was...
    18 KB (2,117 words) - 04:12, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eurydice
    Eurydice (/jʊəˈrɪdɪsiː/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυδίκη 'wide justice') was a character in Greek mythology and the Auloniad wife of Orpheus, whom Orpheus tried...
    20 KB (2,309 words) - 01:16, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orpheus
    things and even stones with his music (the usual scene in Orpheus mosaics), his attempt to retrieve his wife Eurydice from the underworld, and his death...
    61 KB (7,576 words) - 20:29, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orfeo ed Euridice
    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...
    36 KB (4,407 words) - 13:46, 13 May 2024
  • Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which set the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in a contemporary...
    19 KB (2,065 words) - 10:56, 13 February 2024
  • waiting for Orpheus to arrive. Heurtebise drives Orpheus home where Orpheus' pregnant wife Eurydice (Déa), a police inspector, and Eurydice's friend Aglaonice...
    13 KB (1,702 words) - 08:34, 17 February 2024
  • Hadestown (category Plays about Orpheus)
    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...
    56 KB (4,113 words) - 03:01, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orpheus in the Underworld
    of Orpheus and Eurydice. In this version Orpheus is not the son of Apollo but a rustic violin teacher. He is glad to be rid of his wife, Eurydice, when...
    82 KB (8,797 words) - 17:41, 12 May 2024
  • Overture (1:37) Orpheus fell in love with Eurydice... (1:09) The first duet of Orpheus and Eurydice and the song of Orpheus ("When Orpheus Sings") (5:38)...
    3 KB (341 words) - 20:30, 27 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice
    with Orpheus and Eurydice is a 124 × 200 cm (approx 4 × 6.5 feet) oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Nicolas Poussin, painted between 1650 and 1653...
    6 KB (654 words) - 01:00, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eurydice (Aucoin)
    that hasn't been heard before." Orpheus, a musician, and Eurydice are playing on the beach. Orpheus proposes to Eurydice and she accepts. Her deceased father...
    11 KB (1,219 words) - 01:46, 21 March 2024
  • Hadestown (album) (category Works about Orpheus)
    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. It has been...
    18 KB (2,056 words) - 16:11, 19 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Proserpina
    Proserpina (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    with that of Orpheus and Eurydice. In Virgil's Georgics, Orpheus' beloved wife, Eurydice, died from a snake-bite; Proserpina allowed Orpheus into Hades...
    24 KB (2,675 words) - 20:08, 1 April 2024
  • Eurydice is a 2003 play by Sarah Ruhl which retells the myth of Orpheus from the perspective of Eurydice, his wife. The story focuses on Eurydice's choice...
    12 KB (1,481 words) - 16:12, 22 January 2024
  • in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Greek mythology. Orpheus, the son of Apollo and a renowned musician, fell in love with Eurydice, who was bitten...
    4 KB (538 words) - 21:05, 18 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Mask of Orpheus
    Persephone and the mime Eurydice. Orpheus goes back for Eurydice but realises she cannot follow him. Orpheus hangs himself. The act ends with Orpheus waking...
    9 KB (1,060 words) - 03:53, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nico Mirallegro
    those for Best Actor at the BBC Audio Drama Awards (2016, for Orpheus and Eurydice) and Best Supporting Actor at the BAFTA Awards (2014, for The Village)...
    29 KB (2,220 words) - 06:52, 16 April 2024
  • self-reflexively noted by the word "rosy" in "Eurydice". Bök finished writing "Orpheus" and "Eurydice" in the spring of 2011 after four years of work...
    15 KB (1,902 words) - 18:04, 8 November 2023
  • 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...
    8 KB (1,100 words) - 23:43, 23 February 2024
  • Records on 12 May 2023. The album features five new songs by Celine Dion and six of her past hits. The first song, "Love Again" was released on 13 April...
    23 KB (1,887 words) - 11:38, 22 March 2024
  • The StoryTeller (TV series) (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    both return to the living world as long as Orpheus did not look back. As Orpheus was not certain that Eurydice was following him into the sunlight, he looked...
    43 KB (6,394 words) - 22:49, 11 May 2024
  • the story of Orpheus and Eurydice in a modern setting. It was first published on Tor.com. Months ago, Orpheus successfully rescued Eurydice from the underworld...
    2 KB (145 words) - 13:35, 2 October 2023
  • to Poseidon and escapes. Erysichthon eventually falls to his endless hunger and devours himself. Orpheus and Eurydice — The story of Orpheus, the god of...
    39 KB (5,784 words) - 08:22, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eurydice (Anouilh play)
    combines skepticism about romance in general and the intensity of the relationship between Orpheus and Eurydice with an other-worldly mysticism. The result...
    5 KB (720 words) - 00:40, 11 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of Orphean operas
    List of Orphean operas (category Operas about Orpheus)
    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...
    11 KB (1,114 words) - 13:38, 13 May 2024
  • Partially based on Greek mythology, the film centers on Eurydice as she waits for her lover Orpheus to save her from Hades. While waiting for her rescue...
    7 KB (477 words) - 18:29, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Kiss (Klimt)
    tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. More specifically, Klimt seems to be showing the exact moment when Orpheus turns around to caress Eurydice and loses his...
    15 KB (1,679 words) - 12:23, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sisyphus
    of Orpheus and Eurydice. When Orpheus descends and confronts Hades and Persephone, he sings a song so that they will grant his wish to bring Eurydice back...
    22 KB (2,339 words) - 21:14, 1 April 2024
  • in the episode to the ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, practices in the Aztec and Mayan cultures, and the religious motif of weighing a person's...
    27 KB (2,952 words) - 12:24, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sonnets to Orpheus
    The Sonnets to Orpheus (German: Die Sonette an Orpheus) are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)...
    17 KB (1,804 words) - 13:36, 13 May 2024