Orpheus may be:

• Orpheus, Greek legendary musician
• Orpheus Roye, professional football player

The head of Orpheus, from an 1865 painting by Gustave Moreau. ... Orpheus Roye (born January 21, 1974 in Miami, Florida) is an American football player who currently plays defensive tackle for the Cleveland Browns. ...

Title or fictional character

• Orpheus, a 1947 ballet by Igor Stravinsky
• The Mask of Orpheus, a 1984 opera by Harrison Birtwistle
• Orpheus, American release of 1949 French film Orphée
• Orpheus (comics), a DC Comics character
• Lyra Orpheus, a silver saint from the popular anime/manga, Saint Seiya
• Doctor Byron Orpheus, a character on the animated series The Venture Bros.
• Orpheus, 1980's-era villain on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
• "Orpheus" (role-playing game)
• Orpheus, an episode title and fictional mystical drug from the TV series Angel.
• "Orpheus" (2004 single), song by Ash
• Orpheus, a character from Cornelia Funke's novel Inkspell

1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Act 4 of Swan Lake: choreography by Petipa and Nureyev, music by Tchaikovsky. ... Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor Fëdorovič Stravinskij) (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a Russian-born composer best known for three compositions from his earlier, Russian period: LOiseau de feu (The Firebird) (1910), Petrushka (1911), and Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) (1913). ... The Mask of Orpheus is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle and a libretto by Peter Zinovieff. ... Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle, CH (born July 15, 1934) is a British composer, widely seen as one of the most significant modern composers from that country. ... Orphée (also known as Orpheus) is a 1949 movie directed by Jean Cocteau starring Jean Marais. ... Orpheus is a character created by Alex Simmons, from the universe of DC comics, who first appeared in Batman: Orpheus Rising (October, 2001). ... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Lyra Orpheus is a character from the Saint Seiya manga/anime. ... Saint Seiya ), also known as Knights of the Zodiac, is a manga and anime series about a group of five mystical warriors called the Saints (or Knights) who have adopted various constellations as their guardian symbols. ... Dr. Byron Orpheus is a major supporting character on the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros. ... The Venture Bros. ... The head of Orpheus, from an 1865 painting by Gustave Moreau. ... Days of our Lives is a long-running American soap opera. ... Categories: World of Darkness | Game stubs ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Angel is a spin-off from the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... A song by Ash, released in 2004 as the first official single form their album Meltdown, the single is found on the Shaun of the Dead Original Soundtrack. ... ~ * ~Inkspell~ * ~ (original title: Tintenblut) is a young adult novel by Cornelia Funke. ...

Group

• Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
• Orpheus Musical Theatre Society
• Orpheus (band)
• Orpheus (New Orleans), Mardi-Gras production team
• Orpheus (Mandeville), Mardi-Gras production team

The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a small classical music orchestra which has made many recordings. ... One of North Americas oldest amateur musical theatre societies, Ottawa Ontario based Orpheus was founded in 1906. ... Orpheus was a Boston-based rock band that enjoyed brief popularity in the 1960’s. ...

Other

• Orpheus (planet), alternate name for Theia (planet)
• 3361 Orpheus, an asteroid which crosses Earth's orbit.
• HMS Orpheus, any of several vessels
• Orpheus headphones, model by Sennheiser
• Bristol-Siddeley Orpheus, a turbojet engine.
• Orpheus, a song by The Mekons
• Orpheus, a song by Ash

The Big Splash. ... Theia (THAY-uh) is the hypothetical planet that, according to the giant impact theory of the Moons formation, collided with Earth over four billion years ago. ... The HMS Orpheus was a corvette that sunk off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand in 1863. ... The Sennheiser Logo Sennheiser is a German pro audio company. ... The Bristol-Siddeley Orpheus was a single spool turbojet developed by Bristol Aero Engines for various light fighter/trainer applications such as the Folland Gnat and the Fiat G91Y. Later, the Orpheus formed the core of the first Bristol Pegasus vectored thrust turbofan as used for the Hawker Siddeley Harrier... Turbojets are the simplest and oldest kind of general purpose jet engine. ... The Mekons are a punk rock/post punk band. ... Look up ash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

See also

• Orpheus Descending
• Orpheus: The Lowdown, album evoking Orpheus
• Black Orpheus, film
• Sonnets to Orpheus
• The Lyre of Orpheus, novel
• "The Lyre of Orpheus", song and album-disk by Nick Cave
• ... Orpheus ..., any of various English or translated operas involving Orpheus

Orpheus Descending is a play by Tennessee Williams. ... The head of Orpheus, from an 1865 painting by Gustave Moreau. ... Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro in Portuguese) is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. ... Sonnets to Orpheus were written by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) in 1922 as a grave-monument for Vera Ouckama Knoop (1900-1919), a playmate of Rilkes daughter Ruth. ... The Lyre of Orpheus, published in 1988, is the last of the three connected novels of the Cornish Trilogy by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. ... Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 2005. ... The head of Orpheus, from an 1865 painting by Gustave Moreau. ...

Title including "Orphée"

• Orphée, 1949 French film
• ... Orphee, any of various French operas involving Orpheus

Orphée (also known as Orpheus) is a 1949 movie directed by Jean Cocteau starring Jean Marais. ... The head of Orpheus, from an 1865 painting by Gustave Moreau. ...

Title including "Orpheo"

• Orfeo, 15th-century drama, performed with music, by Poliziano
• Orfeo..., any of various Italian operas involving Orpheus, the most famous of which is by Claudio Monteverdi

Angelo Polizian (Angelo Ambrogini) (1454 - 1494) was a Florentine classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of Humanist Latin. ... LOrfeo (LOrfeo, favola in musica) is one of the earliest works recognised as an opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi with text by Alessandro Striggio for the annual carnival of Mantua. ... The head of Orpheus, from an 1865 painting by Gustave Moreau. ... Portrait of Claudio Monteverdi in Venice, 1640, by Bernardo Strozzi. ...

Title including "Orpheu"

• Orfeu Negro, 1959 French-directed Brazilian film Black Orpheus
• Orfeu (1999), Brazilian remake of film Black Orpheus

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