Orpheus the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy – "The Blood of a Poet" (1930), "Orpheus" (1950) and "Testament of Orpheus" (1959) – was filmed over thirty years, and is based in many ways on the story. Philip Glass adapted the second film into the chamber opera "Orphée" (1991), part of a homage triptych to Cocteau. Nikos Nikolaidis' 1975 film "Evrydiki BA 2O37" is an innovative perspective on the classic Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice. Dino Buzzati adapted the Orpheus motif in his graphic novel "Poem Strip" (1969). Neil Gaiman depicts
Greek underworld would have to follow behind Orpheus and he could not turn around to look at her. Once Orpheus reached the entrance, he turned around, longing to look at his beautiful wife, only to watch as his wife faded back into the underworld. He was forbidden to return to the underworld a second time and he spent his life playing his music to the birds and the mountains. Greek underworld In mythology, the Greek underworld is an otherworld where souls go after death. The original Greek idea of afterlife is that, at the moment of death, the soul is separated from