Orpheus sang of his grief from earth to heaven, moving the gods and all of creation. So little did life seem without Eurydice that he resolved to go and see her in Hades—and, if possible, return ...

Orpheus and Eurydice will play at the Winspear Opera House on Feb. 7, 9, 12 and 15, 2025. The Feb. 15 performance will be livestreamed for free. Find tickets and streaming information here .

Eurydice (Madison Leonard) performs during a dress rehearsal for the Dallas Opera production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Orpheus and Eurydice" in the Winspear Opera House on Feb. 4, 2025.(Kyle ...

Megan Colton (Eurydice), Jaylon C. Crump (Hermes), Jose Contreras (Orpheus) and cast in the 2025 North American tour of the musical "Hadestown." (Evan Zimmerman) Expand ...

Here’s where the story will sound familiar: Eurydice ends up in hell, Orpheus goes in after her and makes a deal to get her out, which comes, naturally, with strings attached.

Orpheus, a gifted musician whose music could enchant anyone—even the gods—falls deeply in love with Eurydice, a beautiful nymph. Soon after their wedding, Eurydice is bitten by a snake and ...

Edward John Poynter's painting Orpheus and Eurydice, 1862.Fairies were stock characters in medieval romances from the late 13th/early 14th century, including the story of Sir Orfeo, a Middle ...

Orpheus is typically the center of this story, and you can find tenor-in-a-bandana iterations of him across midtown from Hadestown to Moulin Rouge!.The reliable Caleb Eberhardt (recently ...

But Orpheus’ magic lyre imparts calm, and in an imagined Elysium he finds Eurydice happily gliding back and forth on a swing.