Orpheus

About the show

Queen Orasia of Thrace loves Orpheus, but he loves Eurydice. Orasia plots against Eurydice, who dies from a snakebite in Orpheus’s arms. Orpheus descends to the underworld and persuades Pluto to release her, but looks back too soon and loses her. Orasia expects him to love her now, but he rejects her. She urges Bacchus’s followers to kill Orpheus, then sees a vision of Orpheus and Eurydice reunited and kills herself in despair.