Orpheus's

Choreographed to the 1947 Stravinsky score, Orpheus cleverly deploys six dancers to dramatise the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, with a chorus of living characters (Orpheus's friends/chorus) and the inhabitants of the underworld (Death and Furies).

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Shelf Shots: Dark Orpheus's Unlikely Combinations 2008

It's the wrenching story of Orpheus's efforts to reclaim his wife, Eurydice, from the afterlife.

Giulietta Simionato, Opera Star, Dies at 99 2010

The final ironies of "The Power of Music" are political, involving both a transformation of the mythic role of Orpheus's music, and the narrator's detached view of the new Orphic role he describes.

Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music 2008

The novel's charismatic fundamentalist, who terrifies the authorities and bewitches the woman the poet wants to love — on a mystic level, their struggle is Orpheus's defeat by Dionysus — this death-defying terrorist first of all strives to have his threats against Europe published in one of the big German newspapers so that the West will pay him notice.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 - Presentation Speech 2006

Scabs crumble now, revealing -- yes -- the opening of Orpheus's eyes.

Sonnets For Orpheus Hal Duncan 2005

I say humanity is king when Orpheus's song is sung.

Archive 2005-10-01 Hal Duncan 2005

Scabs crumble now, revealing -- yes -- the opening of Orpheus's eyes.

Archive 2005-10-01 Hal Duncan 2005

He just stared at the sheet of paper covered with Orpheus's fine handwriting.

Excerpt: Inkspell by Cornelia Funke 2005

I say humanity is king when Orpheus's song is sung.

Sonnets For Orpheus Hal Duncan 2005