Orpheus und Eurydike Orpheus und Eurydike Orpheus und Eurydike ("Orpheus and Eurydice") is an opera by Ernst Krenek. The German text is based on a play by Oskar Kokoschka. Kokoschka began writing his play during his convalescence (from wounds received on the Ukrainian front in 1915) and it premiered in 1921, one year before Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus appeared. In 1923 he let it be known that he was looking for a composer to write incidental music. Kokoschka's expressionist, psychological treatment of the Orpheus myth, marked by his passion for Alma Mahler, appealed to Krenek so he approached Kokoschka. They quickly decided that
Orpheus Spiliotopoulos third) were sung by his mother and female singer of the band, Iris Mavraki. Orpheus Spiliotopoulos Orpheus Spiliotopoulos () (born July 27, 1980 in Greek island of Rhodes), son of Greek singer Iris Mavraki, is an independent band manager, a music journalist, a radio show host, a club DJ and a lyricist. He is also the former TV host / VJ of MTV Greece's "Headbangers Ball" and a former promoter for major record labels. Orpheus currently resides in Athens, Greece. On February 4, 2010, MTV Greece announced that Spiliotopoulos would be co-hosting the Greek version of the legendary MTV show,