Orpheus (disambiguation)
Orpheus was a legendary figure in Greek mythology, chief among poets and musicians.
Orpheus may also be:
Music and dance
- Orpheus (ballet), George Balanchine's 1948 ballet
- Orpheus in the Underworld, operetta by Jacques Offenbach
- The Mask of Orpheus, Harrison Birtwistle's 1984 opera
- "Orpheus" (song), a single from the album Secrets of the Beehive by David Sylvian
- "Orpheus" (song), a single from the album Meltdown by the band Ash
- The Lyre of Orpheus (album), song and album by Nick Cave
- Orpheus (band), a Worcester rock band from the 1960s
- Orpheus Music, an R&B and jazz record label
- Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, classical music chamber orchestra from New York City, U.S.
- Orpheus Musical Theatre Society, amateur musical theatre society in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Orpheus Club of Philadelphia, a men's chorus in Philadelphia
- Golden Orpheus, 1965–1999, a Bulgarian song contest
- Orphei Drängar, Swedish singing society, founded 1853
- List of Orphean operas
Television and film
- The Orphic Trilogy, three French films by Jean Cocteau, including
- Orpheus (film), or Orphée, 1950
- Testament of Orpheus, or Le testament d'Orphée, 1960
- Black Orpheus, a 1959 French film
- "Orpheus 3.3", an episode of 21 Jump Street
- "Orpheus" (Angel), an episode of the television series Angel
- "Orpheus" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1
- Doctor Byron Orpheus, a character on the animated series The Venture Bros.
- Orpheus, a character in the anime film Saint Seiya: The Movie
- Orpheus, villain on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
Literature
- Orpheus (play), a play by Jean Cocteau
- Orpheus Descending, a play by Tennessee Williams
- The Lyre of Orpheus (novel), last of the Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
- Sonnets to Orpheus, German poetry written by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Orpheus, a character from the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke
Games and comics
- Orpheus (comics), a DC Comics character
- Orpheus (role-playing game), published by White Wolf Game Studio
- Orpheus, The main character's persona in the video game Persona 3
Other uses
- ORPHEUS, the Organisation for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System
- Orpheus (ship), a former cruise ship
- Orpheus, Ohio, an unincorporated community
- Orpheus Gate, a geographical pass in Antarctica
- Orpheus Monument, a Roman-era monument in Slovenia
- Orpheus Roye, American professional football player
- 3361 Orpheus, an Apollo asteroid
- Bristol Siddeley Orpheus, a turbojet engine
- HMS Orpheus, any of several ships of the Royal Navy
- Krewe of Orpheus, a New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe
- Orpheus, an alternative name for Theia, the colliding body in the giant impact hypothesis
- Orpheus, a mockingbird genus, now a junior synonym of Mimus
- Orpheus, an invalid genus proposed for the brown-eared bulbul
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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
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