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26 unusual facts about Orpheus


Adoration of the shepherds

In Renaissance art, drawing on classical stories of Orpheus, the shepherds are sometimes depicted with musical instruments.

André Ruellan

In the sequel, Ortog, and his friend Zoltan, embark on an Orpheus-like quest through the dimensions of Death to find Kalla’s soul and bring her back to Earth.

Brad Delp

In 1968, Delp also discovered the music of a local group from Worcester called Orpheus and became a lifelong fan, calling them his "favorite band – second only to The Beatles".

Defenders Day

The completion of the Orpheus statue at Fort McHenry further emphasized the story of the writing of the "Star Spangled Banner" following the bombardment of the fort by British naval forces, instead of the commemoration of Battle of North Point and Baltimore’s Battle Monument.

Denise Levertov

This poem uses the metaphor of a tree, which changes and grows when it hears the music of Orpheus.

François Anatole Laurent de Rillé

The name comes from the first of these associations, founded in Paris, who named itself "Orphéon" (from Orpheus).

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Contemporaries nicknamed him Orpheus of Amsterdam and even the city authorities frequently brought important visitors to hear Sweelinck's improvisations.

Jan van Huysum

A picture by Justus is preserved in the gallery of Brunswick, representing "Orpheus and the Beasts in a wooded landscape", and here we have some explanation of his son's fondness for landscapes of a conventional and Arcadian kind; for Jan van Huysum, though skilled as a painter of still life, believed himself to possess the genius of a landscape painter.

Jean Roger-Ducasse

Orphée mimodrame lyrique, Opéra Garnier, June 1936 Based on his own libretto, closely following the Greek myth.

Kleinzeit

Many abstract concepts are similarly personified, including Death, Hospital, the (London) Underground (which is associated with the myth of Orpheus), Action and God.

Maria Anna von Genzinger

By "my opera" Haydn meant his L'anima del filosofo, completed the previous year; the aria in question is a lament by the main character Orpheus.

Musica enchiriadis

) The last, nineteenth, chapter of Musica enchiriadis relates the legend of Orpheus.

On Love and Death

The final section of the essays is devoted to a comparison of two mythological accounts of love: the stories of Orpheus and Jesus Christ.

Orfeu

Orfeu da Conceição is an adaptation of the musical form of the Greek myth of Orpheus transposed to the reality of slum's in Rio .

This film is also considered to be a much more updated, grittier remake of the 1959 film Black Orpheus.

Orpheus no Mado

This love will only bring pain for it will end up like the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Orphium

The name derives from the legendary Greek musician Orpheus.

Poems 1912–13

Throughout Hardy's life, the stories of Tristan and Iseult, Aeneas and Dido, and Orpheus and Eurydice, stories about mythological figures that had loved and lost, helped to shape society's view.

Robota

Robota (2003) is an illustrated book by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card about a mysterious fourth planet of the solar system named Orpheus.

Rottweil

Roman baths and a mosaic of Orpheus (c. AD 180) date from the time of Roman settlement.

Sir Eglamour of Artois

The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a work sometime around 1380 in which the poet himself is carried by an eagle up into the sky, near to the stars, to a place called the House of Fame, where he finds ancient writers and poets such as Orpheus and Simon Magus still living.

Tantivy Towers

It is set in the present day (the early 1930s), and plays on the contrasts and conflicts between the rural aristocracy and urban bohemians, between the hunting set and the artists - as one song describes it, "between Orpheus and Hercules".

The Immortal Hour

Alternatively, the progression of Etain into the mortal realm and her pursuit and redemption by Midir have similarities with the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice.

The Lyre of Orpheus

Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, an album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, or the song "The Lyre of Orpheus"

The Rhodopi International Theater Collective

The Rhodopa Mountains is the mythological birthplace of Orpheus and the original terrain of the cult of Dionysus, thus a mythological birthplace of Western theatre and performance.

Vladislav Khodasevich

The former contained the most important rendition of Orpheus theme in the Russian poetry, the esoteric Ballad.


Anna Magnani

Magnani worked with Tennessee Williams again for the 1959 film, The Fugitive Kind (originally titled, Orpheus Descending) directed by Sidney Lumet, in which she played Lady Torrance and starred with Marlon Brando.

Artistic inspiration

The Greco-Latin doctrine of the divine origin of poetry was available to medieval authors through the writings of Horace (on Orpheus) and others, but it was the Latin translations and commentaries by the neo-platonic author Marsilio Ficino of Plato's dialogues Ion and (especially) Phaedrus at the end of the 15th century that led to a significant return of the conception of furor poeticus.

Bartolo Musil

Bartolo Musil has worked with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Andrea Marcon, the Wiener Klangforum, the Ensemble Kontrapunkte, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the SWR-Orchester, the Orpheus Kammerorchester, the Savaria Baroque Orchestra, Armonio Tributo, conducted by Lorenz Duftschmid, and directors such as Pet Halmen and Achim Freyer.

Cadmus of Miletus

A confused notice in the Suda mentions three persons of the name: the first, the inventor of the alphabet; the second, the son of Pandion, according to some the first prose writer, a little later than Orpheus, author of a history of the foundation of Miletus and of Ionia generally, in four books; the third, the son of Archelaus, of later date, author of a history of Attica in fourteen books, and of some poems of an erotic character.

Chamber Symphony No. 1

Chamber Symphony No. 1 is one of the most recorded of Schoenberg's works and has received attention from conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbado, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Zubin Mehta, and chamber groups such as the Hyperion Ensemble, Hagen Quartett and Orpheus.

Enzo Cilenti

He also performed at The Royal Court in a series of plays written and directed by Russian artists entirely in Russian; in Thai ballet as Orpheus in Backpacker Orpheus, a play devised entirely from people’s experiences in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake; and in conceptual theatre for new-writing company Paines Plough in a series of shows (including a one man show) commissioned over a number of seasons by Miuccia Prada to showcase collections for her Miu Miu line at Milan Fashion Week.

François-Hippolyte Barthélémon

David Garrick of the Drury Lane Theatre engaged him to compose music to Garrick’s two-act farcical burletta based on the Orpheus myth, which premiered in 1768.

Geração de Orpheu

The journal's name, Orpheu was not chosen by accident - as in Greek myth, Orpheus (Orfeu in Portuguese) was the musician who, to save his wife Eurydice from Hades, had to travel from the world of the living with the stipulation to not looking back.

Glyn Maxwell

Other plays include Wolfpit, about two green children said to have appeared in Suffolk in the 12th century (Edinburgh 1996; New York 2006), The Forever Waltz, a reworking of the Orpheus-Eurydice story (New York 2005; Edinburgh 2005), and The Only Girl in the World, a play about Mary Kelly, the last victim of Jack the Ripper (London 2001).

Hercules Pavilion

The facade is dominated by Giovanni Baratta's statue of Hercules from which it takes its name, which is located in a deep niche flanked by Tuscan columns and two smaller niches with statues of Orpheus and Eurydice, also designed by Baratta and brought home by Frederick IV.

In Person at El Matador

# Black Orpheus Medley: Manhã de Carnaval/Batuque de Orfeu/Samba de Orfeu/A Felicidade (Luiz Bonfá & Antônio Maria/Rossini Pacheco/Luiz Bonfá & Antônio Maria/Antônio Carlos Jobim & Vinícius de Moraes)

Jules-Élie Delaunay

After his return from Rome he was entrusted with many important commissions for decorative paintings, such as the frescoes in the church of St Nicholas at Nantes; the three panels of Apollo, Orpheus and Amphion at the Paris Opera house; and twelve paintings for the great hall of the council of state in the Palais Royal.

Luciana Savignano

She has also interpreted Romeo and Juliet, Buak, Bolero, Swan Lake, The Taming of the Shrew, Cinderella, A la memoire (Mahler), Carmina Burana (Carl Orff) and Orpheus (Stravinsky).

Matthias Rettner

He continued with his model of blending and interpenetration of different styles and genres with productions for the RuhrTriennale in 2004, "Orpheus", a commissioned production for Gerard Mortier, and the German premiere of the Rome section of the Philip Glass opera "The CIVIL warS" in September 2004.

Opera Quotannis

The ensemble's first production was in January 1991, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, with counter-tenor Derek Lee Ragin as Orpheus and soprano Tracey Mitchell as Euridice, with a period-instrument orchestra, at the Church of St Paul the Apostle at Lincoln Center.

Orpheus Club of Philadelphia

These have included Maude Powell, violinist, who accompanied and played in no less than seven formal concerts between 1886 and 1897; Victor Herbert, cellist (1896); Pablo Casals, cellist (1904); Marcel Tabuteau, oboist: William Kinkaid, flautist: Louise Homer, operatic contralto; David Bisham, baritone (coincidentally a member of the Orpheus Club and a star of the Metropolitan Opera); Noah Swayne and Wilbur Evans, bassos (also members of the Orpheus Club).

Orpheus Island National Park

Besides Orpheus Island, the national park also includes Albino Rock, which is located 2.6 km Aleast of Palm Island.

Paride ed Elena

Paride ed Elena (Paris and Helen) is the third of Gluck's so-called reform operas for Vienna, following Alceste (Alcestis) and Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice), and the least often performed of the three.

Ralph Hooper

The Bristol Siddeley Orpheus had been the starting point for the engine, with the Orpheus 3 first used, then an Orpheus 6.

The Lyre of Orpheus

Lyra, a constellation associated, in Greek mythology, with the lyre of Orpheus

The Plague

Cottard and Tarrou attend a performance of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice, but the actor portraying Orpheus collapses with plague symptoms during the performance.

Theodor Mommsen

Lionel Gossman, Orpheus Philologus: Bachofen versus Mommsen on the Study of Antiquity. American Philosophical Society, 1983.

Thrace

Greek mythology is replete with Thracian kings, including Diomedes, Tereus, Lycurgus, Phineus, Tegyrius, Eumolpus, Polymnestor, Poltys, and Oeagrus (father of Orpheus).