Orpheus (disambiguation)

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Orpheus may be:

• Orpheus, Greek legendary musician
• Orpheus Roye, professional football player

Contents 1 Title or fictional character 2 Group 3 Other 4 See also 4.1 Title including "Orphée" 4.2 Title including "Orpheo" 4.3 Title including "Orfeu"

[edit] Title or fictional character

• Orpheus, a 1947 ballet by Igor Stravinsky
• Orpheus, a 1979 dance drama by Hans Werner Henze with scenario by Edward Bond, and Orpheus Behind the Wire, a 1981 set of choral pieces by Henze with texts by Bond
• The Mask of Orpheus, a 1984 opera by Harrison Birtwistle
• Orpheus, American release of 1949 French film Orphée
• Orpheus (comics), a DC Comics character
• Lyra Orpheus, a silver saint from the popular anime/manga, Saint Seiya
• Doctor Byron Orpheus, a character on the animated series The Venture Bros.
• Orpheus, 1980s-era villain on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
• "Orpheus" (role-playing game)
• "Orpheus" (Angel episode), an episode title and fictional mystical drug from the TV series Angel
• Orpheus (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1
• Orpheus, a character from Cornelia Funke's novel Inkspell
• In Warhammer 40,000, The Praetors of Orpheus is a Space Marine Chapter.
• Orpheus, the Persona that the main character in Persona 3 starts out with.

[edit] Group

• Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
• Orpheus Musical Theatre Society
• Orpheus Male Voice Choir, Grimsy & Cleethorpes, an amateur choir in the UK
• Orpheus (band)
• Orpheus (New Orleans), Mardi-Gras production team
• Orpheus (Mandeville), Mardi-Gras production team
• Krewe of Orpheus, a New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe.

[edit] Other

• Orpheus (planet), alternate name for Theia (planet)
• 3361 Orpheus, an asteroid which crosses Earth's orbit.
• HMS Orpheus, any of several vessels
• Orpheus headphones, model by Sennheiser
• Bristol-Siddeley Orpheus, a turbojet engine.
• Orpheus, a song by The Mekons
• Orpheus (audio player), a text-/console-based music player under Linux
• Orpheus, a psychometric test to measure work-based personality
• Orpheus Music, a record label
• Orpheus Gate, a pass in Antarctica

[edit] See also

• Orpheus Descending
• Orpheus: The Lowdown, album evoking Orpheus
• Black Orpheus, film
• Sonnets to Orpheus
• The Lyre of Orpheus, novel
• "The Lyre of Orpheus", song and album-disk by Nick Cave
• ... Orpheus ..., any of various English or translated operas involving Orpheus

[edit] Title including "Orphée"

• Orphée, 1949 French film
• ... Orphee, any of various French operas involving Orpheus

[edit] Title including "Orpheo"

• Orfeo, 15th-century drama, performed with music, by Poliziano
• Orfeo..., any of various Italian operas involving Orpheus, the most famous of which is by Claudio Monteverdi

[edit] Title including "Orfeu"

• Orfeu Negro, 1959 French-directed Brazilian film Black Orpheus
• Orfeu (1999), Brazilian remake of film Black Orpheus