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

Now, she’s playing a new character who enters the underworld armed only with an ... While this may not be a one-to-one retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the parallels are hard to ...

is a retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, a grieving husband who uses his musical skill to rescue his recently deceased bride, Eurydice, from the Underworld. In The Dallas Opera’s new ...

She is heading for the underworld. Part 2 Hermes persuades Orpheus not to lose heart. They set off for the underworld, but first they must cross the River Styx. The ferryman - Charon - refuses to ...

After being persuaded by Amour, the god of love, Orpheus journeys into the Underworld to find his wife, where he must brave the Furies before reaching her in Elysium. He is allowed to bring ...

Long before fairy tales, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Mills & Boon’s novels, teen vampire romances and swoonworthy period dramas, there was the original love story: Cupid and Psyche ... a box of ...

From Renaissance painters all the way to today’s filmmakers, Psyche and Eros (or “Cupid”) have served as great sources ... She had to go to the Underworld (Hades) and bring back Persephone’s box with ...

This year, Orpheus Theatre Company’s three main-stage shows for 2025 will deal with some aspect of either love or war. “Our bookend productions this season are both Jane Austen-focused ...

Love happens in the brain, where hormonal releases and brain chemicals like dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin are released.

Ramona and Derek Muse Lambert, of Des Moines band Ramona and the Sometimes, have started the tradition of Cupid's Lounge, an annual concert where a bunch of local musicians come together for a ...

Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier ...