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Orpheus and Eurydice (1988)

Screenshot from the performance video at the Seattle Opera, January 16, 1988

Screenshot from the performance video at the Seattle Opera, January 16, 1988

ChoreographerMark Morris

ComposerChristoph Willibald Gluck

MusicOrfeo ed Euridice (Paris version, 1774)

Lighting DesignerPeter Kaczorowski

Costume DesignerMartin Pakledinaz

Set DesignerThomas Lynch

Number of Dancers13

Premiere Date & CompanyJanuary 16, 1988, Seattle Opera

Premiere Performance "Orpheus and Eurydice," Seattle Opera (Seattle, WA) - January 16-27, 1988

Premiere CastStephen Brown, Ruth Davidson Hahn, Tina Fehlandt, Susan Hadley, Penny Hutchinson, David Landis, Erin Matthiessen, Jon Mensinger, Donald Mouton, Kraig Patterson, Keith Sabado, Teri Weksler, Mark Morris

Performances & Events

"Orpheus and Eurydice," Seattle Opera (Seattle, WA) - January 16-27, 1988

Media

Art in America - October 1988

Press
Art in America - October 1988

Bay Windows - June 1988

Press
Bay Windows - June 1988

De Standaard - April 1988

Press
De Standaard - April 1988

Dance Magazine - April 1988

Press
Dance Magazine - April 1988

The Nation - March 1988

Press
The Nation - March 1988

St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch - March 1988

Press
St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch - March 1988

The Minnesota Daily - March 1988

Press
The Minnesota Daily - March 1988

City Pages - March 1988

Press
City Pages - March 1988

Program for "Orpheus and Eurydice" at the Seattle Opera (Seattle, WA) - January 16-27, 1988

Programs
Program for "Orpheus and Eurydice" at the Seattle Opera (Seattle, WA) - January 16-27, 1988

The Los Angeles Times - October 1987

Press
The Los Angeles Times - October 1987

San Francisco Chronicle - October 1987

Press
San Francisco Chronicle - October 1987

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Photographs
Mark Morris rehearsing "Orphée et Eurydice," 1987