December 2021 Play On! Materials
Orphée et Euridice
This month, we are exploring Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice, a beautiful story of love, life, the afterlife, trust, and the power of music.
We will learn from two incredible artists: Soprano Teresa Castillo, and Flutist Delandria Mills, who will take us through this exciting story and the powerful music it holds.
Teresa Castillo
Delandria Mills
Watch this telling of the original Orpheus and Eurydice myth! Do you recognize any of the other characters in the story?
The lyre
Orphée, or Orpheus, was a very talented musician, who played an ancient stringed instrument called a lyre.
Does this look like other stringed instruments you’ve seen before?
Can you match the pictures of stringed instruments below with their names?
Guitar 1.__________________
Balalaika 2.__________________
Harp 3.__________________
Cello 4.__________________
Ukulele 5.__________________
Banjo 6.__________________
Can you decorate your own lyre?
Orpheus and his lyre:
The following coloring page shows many images from the Orpheus and Eurydice story… can you decipher the different scenes within the lyre?
Orpheus was such a talented musician that even the creatures and spirits of the forest could not help dancing when he played for them. Can you gather your stuffed animals, toys, or dolls, and put on a concert for them? What songs will you sing?
As with many Greek myths, the story has been told and retold, again and again in many formats. One popular retelling of this myth is the Broadway musical, Hadestown.
Watch the incredible Broadway cast of Hadestown perform the song, “Wait For Me.”
Can you guess which actors play which characters from our story?
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