by Francesco Lora, Bologna, Ut Orpheus, 2010-2011, 2 voll.

For the past twenty-six seasons, the centerpiece of each Orpheus season has been its concert series at New York's Carnegie Hall.

Orpheus ’ 2009-2010 season featured collaborations with celebrated musicians including violinists Henning Kraggerud and Ryu Goto, oboist Albrecht Mayer, pianist Angela Hewitt, and cellist Alisa Weilerstein.

During their 2011-2012 Carnegie season, Orpheus will collaborate with violinists Gil Shaham and Viviane Hagner, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, oboist Albrecht Mayer, and mandolinist Chris Thile.

During the 2011-2012 academic year, Orpheus will be the Artist-in-Residence in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland ( UMD ) for the 2011-2012 season.

For its 2012-13 season, Orpheus is presenting the following:

He saw the soul of Orpheus changing into a swan, Thamyras becoming a nightingale, musical birds choosing to be men, the soul of Atalanta choosing the honours of an athlete.

Ficino saw his thought as part of a long development of philosophical truth, of ancient pre-Platonic philosophers ( including Zoroaster, Hermes Trismegistus, Orpheus, Aglaophemus and Pythagoras ) who reached their peak in Plato.

A major career highlight saw him representing England at the prestigious Golden Orpheus Song Festival in Bulgaria.

Anoushka performed a composition by Shankar for the 2002 Harrison memorial Concert for George and Shankar wrote a third concerto for sitar and orchestra for Anoushka and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

* Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, classical music chamber orchestra from New York City, U. S.

The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a Grammy Award-winning classical music chamber orchestra based in New York City.

Reflecting their commitment to expanding the chamber orchestra repertoire, Orpheus has premiered works by Elliott Carter, Jacob Druckman, Mario Davidovsky, Michael Gandolfi, William Bolcom, Osvaldo Golijov, Fred Lerdahl, Gunther Schuller, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Susan Botti, David Rakowski, Bruce Adolphe, Peter Lieberson, Elizabeth Brown and Han Yong.

In January 201 the orchestra premiered a new concerto for sitar and orchestra commissioned by Orpheus and composed by Ravi Shankar.

On this tour, Orpheus was the first American orchestra to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.

* Orpheus in Rarohenga for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, choir and orchestra ( 2002 )

This story opens up in Greece, where an old man named Andros and his armed family play the modern role of " the priests of Orpheus " and guard a " little temple on a cliff ".

Apollo became fond of Orpheus and gave him a little golden lyre, and taught him to play it.

The original screenplay, Orpheus Descending, was another play inspired by Magnani, although she similarly didn't act in the Broadway play.

A year later, he directed the a TV film adaptation of the play, Orpheus Descending.

His play Orfeu da Conceição, a reworking of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice set in the carnival in Rio, was itself adapted into the film Black Orpheus, which won an Academy Award in 1959 as the Best Foreign Language Film ( France ; director, Marcel Camus ).

In 1988, another Tennessee Williams play, Orpheus Descending, starred Vanessa Redgrave.

Hytner's directorial work for theatre includes The Country Wife, Edward II, Don Carlos, Ghetto, Miss Saigon, Orpheus Descending, a 2-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, Alan Bennett's The History Boys, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel ( 1992 ), Southwark Fair and The Alchemist, Measure for Measure ( 1987 ), The Tempest ( 1988 ) and King Lear ( 1990 ), The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar ( 1992 ), The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh ( 1997 ), The Winter's Tale ( 2001 ), Mother Clap's Molly House by Mark Ravenhill ( 2001 ), Henry V ( play ) ( 2003 ) and England People Very Nice ( 2009 ).

Orpheus Descending is a play by Tennessee Williams.

The play is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek Orpheus legend and deals, in the most elemental fashion, with the power of passion, art, and imagination to redeem and revitalize life, giving it new meaning.

* Orpheus Descending, a play by Tennessee Williams

In mid-2000, he briefly returned to the London stage in the Tennessee Williams play Orpheus Descending, starring as Val Xavier, alongside Helen Mirren as Lady Torrance.

Bonfá collaborated with these and with other prominent Brazilian musicians and artists in productions of de Moraes ' anthological play Orfeu da Conceição, which several years later gave origin to Marcel Camus ' legendary film " Black Orpheus " ( Orfeu Negro in Portuguese ).

Eurydice is a play by Sarah Ruhl which retells the myth of Orpheus from the perspective of Eurydice, his wife.

The play begins with Eurydice and Orpheus, two young lovers, who are about to get married.

Towards the end of the play, Orpheus arrives to save her and Eurydice is faced with the decision to either stay with her father or go back with her husband.

It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, set it in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval.

His most notable play with the Bengals came against the Cleveland Browns on September 15: Frerotte, attempting to avoid a sack by Orpheus Roye, threw the ball with his left hand ( Frerrotte is right-handed ) and was intercepted by Browns defensive lineman Kenard Lang, who returned the ball 71 yards the to the Bengals 8 yard line.

He performed in Orfeu da Conceição, a play by Vinicius de Moraes that was later adapted into the motion picture Black Orpheus.

The seminal artistic creativity of those times brings to mind the myth of Orpheus to whom Apollo gave a lyre and the Muses taught to play and sing.

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.

Most occurrences in ancient literature revolve around the basis of the threat of Cerberus being overcome to allow a living being access to the underworld ; in the Aeneid Cerberus was lulled to sleep after being tricked into eating drugged honeycakes and Orpheus put the creature to sleep with his music.

The figure of Orpheus is prominent throughout the narrative, and Clement contrasts his song, representing pagan superstition, with the divine Logos of Christ.

Bluebird K7 was fitted with a lighter and more powerful Bristol Orpheus engine, taken from a Folland Gnat jet aircraft, which developed of thrust.

In Greek mythology, Lyra was associated with the myth of Orpheus, the musician who was killed by the Bacchantes.

Artapanus of Alexandria explicitly identified Moses not only with Thoth / Hermes, but also with the Greek figure Musaeus ( whom he calls " the teacher of Orpheus "), and ascribed to him the division of Egypt into 36 districts, each with its own liturgy.

The earliest spring-driven timepiece with a second hand which marked seconds is an unsigned clock depicting Orpheus in the Fremersdorf collection, dated between 1560 and During the 3rd quarter of the 16th century, Taqi al-Din built a clock with marks every 1 / 5 minute.

Book 4 concludes with a long mythological narrative, in the form of an epyllion which describes vividly the discovery of beekeeping by Aristaeus and the story of Orpheus ' journey to the underworld.

To the ancient Greeks, the constellation Lyra was formed from the harp of Orpheus, with Vega as its handle.

* February 7 – HMS Orpheus sinks attempting to enter Manukau Harbour in New Zealand, with the loss of 189 lives.

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

The Conservatorio di Musica and the Teatro Communale of Reggio di Calabria were renamed in his memory, and his native town of Palmi built a mausoleum in his memory, decorated with scenes from the myth of Orpheus.

The myth of Proserpina, the most extensive Latin version of which is by Claudian ( 4th century AD ), is closely connected with that of Orpheus and Eurydice.

* At the end of the 19th century, male voice choirs became popular with the coal miners of South Wales, and numerous choirs were established including the Treorchy Male Choir, Morriston Orpheus Choir and Cor Meibion Pontypridd Male voice choirs.

Dmitri Shostakovich quoted " La Marseillaise " at some length during the fifth reel of the film score he composed for the 1929 silent movie, The New Babylon ( set during the Paris Commune ), where it is juxtaposed contrapuntally with the famous " Can-can " from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.

Orpheus, of Ancient Greece | Classical Greek mythology, depicted by Cesare Gennari with a violin that did not exist before 16th century

According to the followers of Orphism, Zeus had lain with Persephone — who, by the tradition ascribed to Orpheus, was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter — in the form of a serpent.

In Fables and Reflections, the seventh volume of Neil Gaiman's comic series The Sandman, the maenads feature in the story Orpheus, in which they gruesomely murder the titular character after he refuses to cavort with them ( echoing the events of the actual Greek myth of Orpheus ).

Dream and Delirium find their way to the temple of Orpheus, where Dream ’ s conversation with Orpheus is not shown.