The Mask of Orpheus Orpheus must travel through is given a symbolic name. At the start of this act, time is moving backwards: Orpheus travels back out of and into the Underworld, and Euridice dies once more. Then time moves forwards as Orpheus leaves the Underworld again. One version of the Orpheus story is that he is then killed by a thunderbolt thrown by Zeus, while another is that he is dismembered by the women of Dionysus. Orpheus then becomes the subject of a cult and an oracle. Time flows backwards once more, and Orpheus' death is acted out again, and the opera ends
The Window of Orpheus The Window of Orpheus , also known as Orpheus no Mado or Das Fenster von Orpheus, is a Japanese historical manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda. It was published by Shueisha in "Margaret" from 1975 to 1981, and collected in 18 bound volumes. It takes place in Germany, Austria and Russia with the backdrop story of the Russian Revolution. The story begins in Regensburg, Germany in 1903. There is a rumor at the all-boys Catholic S. Sebastian Music Institute that if someone looks through a window known as The Window of Orpheus in one of the towers and