Orpheus (disambiguation)

Orpheus was a legendary figure in Greek mythology, chief among poets and musicians.

Orpheus may also be:

Music and dance

• George Balanchine's 1948 Orpheus (ballet) to music by Igor Stravinsky
• Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo
• Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice
• Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld
• Harrison Birtwistle's 1984 opera The Mask of Orpheus
• List of Orphean operas
• Orpheus (song), a single from the album Secrets of the Beehive by David Sylvian
• "Orpheus" (song), a single from the album Meltdown by the band Ash
• The Lyre of Orpheus (album), song and album by Nick Cave
• Orpheus (band), a Boston rock band from the 1960s
• Orpheus Music, an R&B and jazz record label
• Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, classical music chamber orchestra from New York City, U.S.
• Orpheus Musical Theatre Society, amateur musical theatre society in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Television and film

• Orpheus (film), or Orphée, a 1950 French film
• Black Orpheus, a 1959 French film
• Orpheus 3.3, an episode of 21 Jump Street
• "Orpheus" (Angel), an episode of the television series Angel
• "Orpheus" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1
• Doctor Byron Orpheus, a character on the animated series The Venture Bros.
• Orpheus, a character in the anime film Saint Seiya: The Movie

Literature

• Sir Orfeo, a Middle English narrative poem combining elements from the Classical Greek story and from Celtic mythlogy.
• Orpheus Descending, a play by Tennessee Williams
• The Lyre of Orpheus (novel), last of the Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
• Sonnets to Orpheus, German poetry written by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Orpheus, a character from the Inkworld trilogy by Cornelia Funke

Games and comics

• Orpheus (comics), a DC Comics character
• Orpheus (role-playing game), published by White Wolf Game Studio
• Orpheus, The main characters persona in the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3

Other uses

• 3361 Orpheus, an Apollo asteroid
• Orpheus, a mockingbird genus established Swainson in 1827; now a junior synonym of Mimus
• Orpheus, an invalid (preoccupied) genus proposed for the Brown-eared Bulbul by Temminck and Schlegel in 1848
• Orpheus or Theia (planet), a hypothetical planet in a theory of the Moon's formation
• ORPHEUS: Organisation for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System
• Orpheus Gate, a geographical pass in Antarctica
• Orpheus Personality Test based on the Big Five personality traits
• Orpheus Roye, American professional football player
• Bristol Siddeley Orpheus, a turbojet engine
• HMS Orpheus, any of several ships of the Royal Navy
• Krewe of Orpheus, a New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe

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