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Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell.It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her.
Hadestown is the fourth studio album by American folk singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, and was released by Righteous Babe Records on March 9, 2010. The concept album, which became the basis for the stage musical of the same name, follows a variation on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, where Orpheus must embark on a quest to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld.
The show weaves together two love stories from ancient Greek mythology: Orpheus and Eurydice, and god of the underworld Hades and his wife Persephone.
In 2006, Mitchell debuted a draft of her "folk opera" Hadestown, which she wrote in collaboration with arranger Michael Chorney and director Ben T. Matchstick. [18] A revised version of Hadestown was staged in 2007. Her third album, The Brightness, was released that same year on Righteous Babe Records. [19]
"Hadestown," Anaïs Mitchell's Tony- and Grammy-musical reimagining the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, arrives in Los Angeles with a cast that includes Tony-winner Levi Kreis as Hermes.
Actress Morgan Siobhan Green plays Eurydice in "Hadestown," which will run at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center Dec. 14 to 19. 'Hadestown' offers relatable characters and timely themes ...
Hadestown: Live from London is the cast album of the 2024 West End production at the Lyric Theatre, London. It was released digitally, on CD , and on vinyl record on December 6, 2024. The majority of tracks were recorded at the final performance of Grace Hodgett Young and Dónal Finn on August 25, 2024.
The production that began in Vermont in 2006 would go on to win eight Tony Awards in 2019, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.