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

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.

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