Orfeo

About the show

Venus schemes to separate Orpheus and Eurydice, but Eurydice rejects her efforts to make her love Aristaeus. During a dance, Eurydice is bitten by a snake and dies. Orpheus descends to the underworld, where Juno persuades Proserpina and Pluto to release Eurydice on condition that he not look back before they reach the upper world. He turns and loses her again. Jupiter transforms Orpheus, Eurydice, and the lyre into constellations. The epilogue presents the lyre as a symbol of France and wishes King Louis a long life.