Orpheus X

March 25, 2006 - April 23, 2006
"THE GODS MUST BE SMILING! Rinde Eckert and Robert Woodruff have reshaped the story of Orpheus into a stunning music-theater production, powerfully acted and gorgeously sung!"
— Variety

Composer/performer Rinde Eckert and director Robert Woodruff have joined forces with video artist Denise Marika to create a stunning, contemporary riff on a searing ancient myth—the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.

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

"If musical theater is to become once again an art capable of expressing the deepest, highest, most basic and most complex human emotions . . . Rinde Eckert is one of the people who may help make that happen."
— Patriot-Ledger
"The A.R.T.'s haunting take on the myth of a musician's trip to Hades is stark and striking. . . . [Rinde Eckert] succeeds in mixing classic forms of opera and storytelling with striking video imagery and rock-like music."
— Boston Globe

Creative Team

music and text by

Rinde Eckert

video by

Denise Marika

directed by

Robert Woodruff

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
Sponsors 

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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Venue:

Zero Arrow

2 Arrow Street
Cambridge, MA 02138