Orpheus (disambiguation)

Orpheus was a legendary figure in Greek mythology, chief among poets and musicians.

Orpheus may also refer to:

Music and dance

• List of Orphean operas, several operas titled Orpheus or variants, including:
  • Orpheus (Telemann), a 1726 opera by Georg Philipp Telemann
• Orpheus (Liszt), an 1854 symphonic poem by Franz Liszt
• Orpheus (ballet), a 1948 ballet by Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine
• Orpheus (band), a 1960s American rock band
• "Orpheus" (Ash song), 2004
• "Orpheus" (David Sylvian song), 1988
• "Orpheus", a song by Sara Bareilles from Amidst the Chaos, 2019
• Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, based in New York City
• Orpheus Foundation, which supports the Orpheus Sinfonia, based in London
• Orpheus Music, an American record label

Film, television, and theater

• Orpheus (play), a 1926 play by Jean Cocteau
• Orpheus (film), a 1950 adaptation of the play, directed by Cocteau
• "Orpheus" (Angel), a 2003 television episode
• "Orpheus" (Stargate SG-1), a 2003 television episode
• Orpheus (Days of Our Lives), a character in the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
• Doctor Byron Orpheus, a character in the TV series The Venture Bros.
• Triana Orpheus, a character in the TV series The Venture Bros.
• Orpheus, a character in the 2006 off-Broadway musical Hadestown
• Lyra Orpheus, a character in the 1987 film Saint Seiya: The Movie

Games and comics

• Orpheus (DC Comics), a fictional character
• Orpheus (role-playing game), published by White Wolf Game Studio
• Orpheus, the main character's persona in the video game Persona 3
• Orpheus, a character in the video game Hades
• Orpheus, a survivor and hunter in the video game Identity V

Places and structures

• Orpheus, Ohio, US
• Orpheus Gate, a geographical pass in Antarctica
• Orpheus Monument, a Roman-era monument in Slovenia

Science and technology

• 3361 Orpheus, an Apollo asteroid
• Bristol Siddeley Orpheus, a turbojet engine
• Orpheus, a mockingbird genus, now a junior synonym of Mimus

Ships

• Orpheus (ship), three commercial ships
• HMS Orpheus, several ships of the Royal Navy

Other uses

• Orpheus (magazine), Italian modernist journal between 1932 and 1934
• Orpheus – Oper und mehr, German magazine for music theatre
• Krewe of Orpheus, a New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe
• Orpheus Roye (born 1973), American professional football player
• Orpheus, a character from the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke

See also

• ORFEUS, the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer telescope, launched by the Space Shuttle mission 51
• Orpheum (disambiguation), a common name for theaters
• Orphée (disambiguation), the French spelling
• Orfeas (disambiguation), Ορφέας, the Greek spelling
• Orfeo (disambiguation), the Italian spelling

• Orfei, an Italian family name

• Orfeu (disambiguation), the Portuguese spelling
• Orfey (disambiguation), Орфей, the Russian spelling
• Orfeusz i Eurydyka, Polish poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz
• All pages with titles beginning with Orpheus
• All pages with titles containing Orpheus