Orpheus was a world-class poet and bard. He was on the top of the world and engaged to a beautiful nymph named Eurydice.

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And her head still sang and prophesied as it floated down to the sea. Neil Gaiman reads an extract from this poem in Orpheus Underground. Listen online now.

It’s one of the most oft retold stories of Greek mythology. The beautiful Eurydice, beloved of the musician Orpheus, dies and is confined to Hades. Orpheus uses his musical magic to secure her release ...

The followers of Orphism that were mentioned in the text, were associated with the mythical poet Orpheus. They also prayed to the gods Persephone and Dionysus both of whom went down to the ...

Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orpheus and Eurydice, which got its first Dallas Opera performance Friday night at the ...

The most enduringly popular opera by German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orphée et Eurydice recounts the famous myth of Orpheus, the legendary Greek musician and poet who is grief-stricken ...