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	Harrison Birtwistle : The Mask of Orpheus
		The Mask of Orpheus Act 1 sc I: 1st Poem of Reminiscence
		The Mask of Orpheus Act 3 sc ii: Euridice Puppett
		The Mask of Orpheus Act 3 sc iii: 3rd Spoken Argument
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	Orpheus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From the 6th century BC onwards, Orpheus was considered one of the chief poets and musicians of antiquity, and the inventor or perfector of the lyre.
		Orpheus would therefore be semantically close to goao, "to lament, sing wildly, cast a spell", uniting his seemingly disparate roles as disappointed lover, transgressive musician and mystery-priest into a single lexical whole.
		According to the best-known tradition, Orpheus was the son of Oeagrus, king of Thrace, which in pre-historic period seems to describe a wider region from Olymbos to Hellespontos Straits as the Orphic texts (Argonautica) point out that Orpheus was born in mount Elikon at Livithra (Piplan, Pieria), and Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orpheus (1913 words)

	The Mask of Orpheus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mask of Orpheus is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle and a libretto by Peter Zinovieff.
		Rather than telling a story by starting at A and going through B to C, The Mask of Orpheus explores the Orpheus myth in a number of directions at once, examining the various contradictions which are in the various versions of the myth.
		One version of Orpheus is then killed by a thunderbolt thrown by Zeus, while another is dismembered by the women of Dionysus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mask_of_Orpheus (598 words)

	Orpheus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		According to the best-known tradition Orpheus was son of Oeagrus king of Thrace and the muse Calliope.
		Orpheus learned music Linus or from Apollo who was also lover and who gave him his own (made by Hermes out of a turtle as a love gift.
		Orpheus is a world of technology blurring the lines between even the living and the dead, of vast conspiracies and monsters hiding in the shadows.It combines both the gritty, realistic feel they've taken years to fin...
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	Orpheus
		According to the best-known tradition, Orpheus was the son of Oeagrus, king of Thrace, and the muse Calliope.
		Orpheus learned music from Linus, or from Apollo, who was also his lover and who gave him his own lyre (made by Hermes out of a turtle shell) as a gift.
		Orpheus went down to the lower world and by his music softened the heart of Hades and Persephone (the only person to ever do so), who agreed to allow Eurydice to return with him to earth.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Orpheus.html (1614 words)

	The Mask of Orpheus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Mask of Orpheus is an (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) opera with music by (Click link for more info and facts about Harrison Birtwistle) Harrison Birtwistle and a (The words of an opera or musical play) libretto by Peter Zinovieff.
		One version of Orpheus is then killed by a thunderbolt thrown by Zeus, while another is dismembered by the women of ((Greek mythology) god of wine and fertility and drama; the Greek name of Bacchus) Dionysus.
		The Mask of Orpheus, in addition to vocal and orchestral music, contains a significant amount of (Click link for more info and facts about electronic music) electronic music, (which was realized on Birtwistle's behalf by Barry Anderson).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_mask_of_orpheus.htm (623 words)

	4Reference \|\| The Mask of Orpheus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In addition, each of the major characters - Orpheus, Eurydice and Aristaeus - appear in three forms: as a singer who represents their human forms; as a mime, representing their heroic selves; and as a puppet, which represents their myths.
		Euridice later dies from a snake bite, and Orpheus consults the Oracle of the Dead with a view to following her to the Underworld.
		One version of Orpheus is then killed by a thunderbold thrown by Zeus, while another is dismembered by the women of Dionysus.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/The_Mask_of_Orpheus.html (604 words)

	culturevulture.net - review
		Orpheus falls in love with the country girl for no apparent reason save her name and beauty.
		In myth, Orpheus was a great poet and singer, son of the god Apollo and Calliope, a Muse, and Eurydice a great beauty who was bitten by a snake, and died.
		Despite that, Black Orpheus, while not being a cinematic full meal nevertheless is a sweet piece of candy, and thus has to be judged more on its entertainment value than its artistic value; mindful that, unlike the Orphic films of Cocteau, it, at least succeeds on one level, however lowest common denominator that may be.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/blackorpheus.htm (1532 words)

	The Mask of Orpheus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		London Orpheus Choir Information for Concert goers and prospective members for this 60 strong friendly choir performing at the South Bank and St John's, Smith Sq.
		Run by the TFCO, Admiral Richard Denton, SB Orpheus is a port of call for many unsavoury characters, such as pirates, Klingons, et cetera.
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	Orpheus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As closely connected with religious life, he was an augur and seer; practised magical arts, especially astrology; founded or rendered accessible many important cults, such as those of Apollo and Thracian god Dionysus; instituted mystic rites, both public and private; prescribed initiatory and purificatory ritual.
		While several etymologies of the name "Orpheus" have been proposed, the most probable is that it was an actor-noun derived from a hypothetical archaic verb *orphao, "to be deprived, to long for".
		Orpheus learned music from Linus, or from Apollo, who was also his lover and who gave him his own lyre (made by Hermes out of a turtle shell) as a gift.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/O/Orpheus.htm (1576 words)

	On "The Poem as Mask"
		Quite literally, then, the first stanza becomes itself a mask, at once exposing the earlier poem's masquerade and, with that, serving as prelude to the significant action which is to follow; that is, the second stanza's fuller explanation of the deception and the consequent revelation of the poet's (painful) ecstasy in childbirth.
		Her makeover of the Orpheus legend clearly had two aims: one, to reconnect poetry to its older roots in prophecy and wisdom literature, crippling discourse in favor of image; two, to provide a poetics that would acknowledge the full range of female experience as not incidental to poetry, but essential to it.
		In "The Poem as Mask" Rukeyser proposes the founding moment of a female self-recognition, and her simultaneous rejection of Orpheus and acquisition of her own voice, as the moment of a violated childbed, when her fertility is attacked in the instance of its expression.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/rukeyser/mask.htm (1426 words)

	Jean Cocteau
		Furthermore, Orpheus has been receiving messages from a horse, very much in the manner of those table-tapping seances that were all the rage in the nineteenth century.
		Orpheus, strictly speaking, would not have needed any mirror; he needs Eurydice as well as the outer world in which he is to be reflected.
		Orpheus’ voice rises; his mirror, if he really needed one, would be vertical (it is, frequently, in Cocteau, with the major exception noted); his harmonizing power reaches outward and upward, toward the stars.
	www.unites.uqam.ca /religiologiques/no15/strauss.html (3327 words)

	Day of the Dead Essays - Orpheus Lives! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Orpheus, unsatisfied by his mourning in the mortal realm, descends “through the gate of Taenarus to the Styx, to try to rouse the sympathy of the shades as well.” (Metamorphoses 225) Orpheus pleads for the return of his love while playing the lyre to Hades and Persephone, Lord and Lady of the Underworld.
		Orpheus is brutally torn to shreds, and his head and lyre, still singing, land in the river Hebrus, and are carried to the island of Lesbos.
		Orpheus is nearly arrested as he searches for the morgue, where Eurydice has been taken, and he is sent to a nearly abandoned office building filled with papers when he asks where to search for missing persons.
	www.finalrune.com /dead/orpheus.htm (2494 words)

	Voodoo Samba: Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus
		As fate ordains it, she quickly meets Orfeu a.k.a Orpheus (Breno Mello), a handsome tramdriver and Lothario who just happens to lead a dance group as part of his community Samba School, known as the "Babilonia School".
		The distraught Orpheus -- full of disbelief, still in his gold dance costume -- searches the detritus of the Carnival as various casualties are taken away by ambulance.
		The brilliance of Black Orpheus is contained in both the visceral and the intellectual, as its narrative appeals to both instinct and reason.
	www.culturecourt.com /F/Latin/BlackOrpheus.htm (1447 words)

	The Impossible Conference, 23-24 April 1998
		Orpheus and Euridice and such people as Anubis and Inanna and all kinds of others are simply part of the cast of characters in my head as a little repertory company.
		Orpheus, already dead, is physically dismembered in the opera, as he is in his myth.
		The Mask of Orpheus used head masks, and Punch and Judy was based on the original puppet characters, which were, of course, essentially wooden heads with dangling cloth bodies.
	www.geocities.com /vienna/strasse/7969/kong.html (3480 words)

	Musical Times: Orpheus--and after
		The mask of Orpheus is by some way the `senior partner', having been begun in the early 1970s.
		Another irony attending the status of The mask of Orpheus is the non-existence of an easily-obtainable study score.
		Since much of the impact of The mask of Orpheus is the result of the determination with which it distances itself from the aria-dominated traditions of Monteverdi and Gluck, Alexander Goehr's Arianna could almost have been designed to offer an antithesis.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3870/is_199801/ai_n8785527 (1091 words)

	Eurydice
		While fleeing from Aristaeus, she was bitten by a serpent and died.
		Orpheus went down to the lower world and by his music softened the heart of Hades and Persephone (the only person to ever do so), who allowed Eurydice to return with him to earth.
		The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is the subject of a number of operas, among them Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1609), Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (1762), Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld (1858) and Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask of Orpheus (1986).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/eu/eurydice.html (467 words)

	Orpheus
		The New Orpheus (1925), 18:00, Weill, Kurt (1900-1950).
		An opera in which Orpheus is stoned to death by Eurydice's sisters when he cannot cure her fatal disease.
		Orpheus and Eurydice (1972, rev.1983), 22:00, Foss, Lukas (1922-).
	www.jcu.edu /myth&music/orpheus.htm (2791 words)

	The Mask Of Orpheus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But the skin is stretched taut, tightened into a mask.
		His personae include a succession of mythical figures, Orpheus for instance (although in Munch's version...
		Sonny Borey, who leads the 1,200-member Krewe of Orpheus with singer and actor...
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	Orpheus-Zeus
		In a switch of plot, Queen Orasia is responsible for Eurydice's death out of passion for Orpheus; and after his unsuccessful attempt to rescue Eurydice, she sets the Bacchantes on Orpheus for rejecting her.
		The Mask of Orpheus (1973-83), 160:30, Birtwistle, Harrison (1934-).
		An opera presenting the basic story, but in an original way as different, sometimes contradictory, versions of the same episode are presented at the same time; the same episode is presented from different perspectives; and each major character is represented by singer, mime, and puppet.
	www.jcu.edu /myth&music/orpheus2.htm (2259 words)

	Amazon.com: The Mask of Orpheus: Music: Alan Opie,Omar Ebrahim,Sir Harrison Birtwistle,Sir Andrew Davis,BBC ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For the Mask of Orpheus continually takes different views of the myth, different versions of the story as handed down by the folk traditions, and sets them against each other to reflect on one another.
		Quite simply put, The Mask of Orpheus is not only one of the truly great operas of the twentieth century, but also one of the truly great masterpieces in 20th century music.
		The Mask of Orpheus -- like HB's masterpiece The Triumph of Time -- is obsessed with ideas of procession and precession; the listener moves through a musical landscape that is itself in motion, constantly revealing different angles of its terrain -- usually with great vividness.
	www.amazon.com /Mask-Orpheus-Alan-Opie/dp/B000009NNP (2061 words)

	The Mask of Orpheus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Mask of Orpheus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about The Mask of Orpheus contains research on
		The Mask of Orpheus, Synopsis and The music.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/The_Mask_of_Orpheus (621 words)

	Zoran Stefanovic: Slovenski Orfej / Slavic Orpheus
		Orpheus approaches her first with a curved knife in his right hand, and Eurydice with herbs and flowers.
		A holler from all mingles with the inhuman cacophony of the lyre.
		Orpheus to the public scene resulted in the organising of his followers into an attractive fancy sect with a dynamic outlook.
	www.rastko.org.yu /drama/zstefanovic/orfej/drama/zstefanovic-orfej_e.html (9433 words)

	MUSIC: A 4-HOUR OPERA, 'ORPHEUS,' BY BIRTWISTLE - New York Times
		But all along, it turns out, he's been hatching something really ambitious, a four-hour opera called ''The Mask of Orpheus,'' which finally, after years of delays occasioned by the enormous effort required to produce it, received its world premier Wednesday night at the London Coliseum by the English National Opera.
		All the characters are masked, as in Greek tragedy, but the title also refers to English Baroque masques and to questions about what lies behind the myth that comes down to us today.
		Each of the three main characters - Orpheus, Euridice and the bee-keeper Aristaeus, whose desiring of Euridice leads to her death - is portrayed by a singer, a mime-dancer and a ''puppet'' (another singer in a more elaborate mask).
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	The Mask of Orpheus
		In addition, each of the major characters - Orpheus, Euridice and Aristaeus - appear in three forms: as a singer who represents their human forms; as a mime, representing their heroic selves; and as a puppet, which represents their myths.
		When first seen in Act I, this event is shown simultaneously in two different versions: in one, Euridice is raped by Aristaeus before dying, in the other she isn't.
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	www.wordlookup.net /th/the-mask-of-orpheus.html (704 words)

	Harrison Birtwistle - CompositionToday.com
		In 1986 came the long-awaited premiere of Birtwistle’s second opera, The Mask of Orpheus, which, with its mythologized, masked characters, represents the summation of his love of hieratic structures and repetitive narratives.
		The characters of The Second Mrs Kong (1994) include not only Orpheus and Eurydice, but also Vermeer, King Kong and a beauty queen, while The Last Supper (2000) is based around the idea of a reuinion between Jesus and his disciples two thousand years after the event.
		Despite the relatively greater user-friendliness of his recent music, however, the ten thousand outraged listeners who jammed the BBC switchboards after the premiere of Panic at the Last Night of the Proms in 1995 testify to the fact that, thankfully, Birtwistle has lost none of his power to shock and surprise.
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	Orpheus Dive - Scuba Diving Equipments - Mask, Fins, Snorkels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When you enrol with Orpheus Dive as a PADI Open Water Diver, you are given S$350 discount vouchers to make your purchase on diving equipment.
		If you are not sure what to get, speak with our dive team, they will be in the best position to advice you based on your needs.
		When you enrol with Orpheus Dive as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, you are given S$200 discount vouchers to make your purchase on diving equipment.
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