The Mask of Orpheus

About the show

The opera explores contradictory versions of the Orpheus myth through simultaneous events and repeated events that are predicted, remembered, or replayed. Orpheus and Eurydice fall in love and marry, but she dies and he journeys to the Underworld. He returns believing she follows him, then dies in several retellings of the myth. The work ends as the Orpheus myth decays.