Orpheus and Euridice at The Cockpit

Orpheus and Eurydice is a contemporary chamber opera and dark comedy inspired by the Greek myth. Twenty years after descending into the underworld, Orpheus has forgotten why he is there. He and Eurydice live inside in their grave, as if it were a small apartment: they wake up every day, drink tea, read the news, water the plants, and sleep, repeating the same ritual day after day. But one evening Orpheus’ memory begins to return and this is changing everything.

With Bauhaus, and queer futuristic aesthetics, this new opera is a surreal descent into the folly of the underworld of love and loss in a complex political climate resembling the pre Second World War Era. A surreal opera about love and loss, the horrors of repetition and all things bizarre that the underworld can hold. An operatic ode to antimilitarism and an antidote to the growing fascism through the timelessness of love.