“Wedding Song” A love duet between Orpheus and Eurydice.
#Hades orpheus diamond full
The EP of the cast album is out, but not the full album, and I am dying to hear the rest of it…Īnd now I’m going to talk about all the songs in excruciating detail which hopefully will convince you to purchase this album, because it really is the greatest and I have to express this somewhere, because my roommate is getting sick of me talking about it. In 2016, it has been adapted as an off-Broadway show and I want to see it sooo badly, and from what I’ve seen, is flipping fantastic. Orpheus is a traveling musician with a guitar strapped to his back, Persephone runs a speakeasy in Hadestown, Hades is a hardened capitalist brainwashing his minions to build a wall… It is a “postapocalyptic 30′s depression hillfolk” kind of setting.
Oh, and Ben Knox Miller as Hermes and the Haden Triplets as the Fates. Anais Mitchell had the idea for a folk rock opera stage show–but it started out as a concept album, put out in 2010, with her doing the vocals of Eurydice, Bon Iver doing the vocals of Orpheus, Greg Brown as Hades, and Ani DiFranco as Persephone. You all know how Hamilton started out as a mixtape idea by Lin Manuel? Similar thing. Hadestown started out as a folk rock opera written by Anais Mitchell. I found this quite randomly and became immediately outraged that a folk rock opera on Orpheus and Eurydice existed and I had no flipping idea. I’ve been pretty obsessed with this concept album.
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