Composer/performer Rinde Eckert and director Robert Woodruff, creators of Highway Ulysses, have joined forces with video artist Denise Marika to create another stunning, contemporary riff on a searing ancient myth—this time the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
The famous singer Orpheus has locked himself up in his recording studio, where he dreams of rescuing the poet Eurydice from the underworld. Eurydice, meanwhile, is welcomed to the afterlife by the Queen of the Dead, who offers her something she could never have in the world above.
Appearing at the Edinburgh International Festival, August 25-29, 2007
International Touring Representation:
Micocci Productions, LLC
Funding for Orpheus X has been provided in part by:
Meet the Composer/USA
National Endowment for the Arts
Michael Jacobson
The Rockefeller Foundation/Multi-arts Production Fund
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
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Credits
| Orpheus | Rinde Eckert |
| Eurydice | Suzan Hanson |
| John/Persephone | John Kelly |
| BAND | Timothy Feeney, Percussion Jeff Lieberman, Piano, Guitar Blake Newman, Bass Wendy Richman, Viola |
| set design by | David Zinn and Denise Marika |
| costume design by | David Zinn |
| lighting design by | Christopher Akerlind |
| sound design by | David Remedios |