OrpheusEurydice2.0084

Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown, "folk opera", musical score by Michael Chorney, produced by Todd Sickafoose; with talents of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and others. Righteous Babe Records, 2010. Righteous Babe website

"Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown tells the story of the ancient Greek myth of the poet Orpheus and his doomed quest to rescue his love Eurydice from the Underworld. But in Mitchell’s hands, the familiar saga is reimagined as unfolding in a version of the U.S. that simultaneously evokes our Depression-era past, the current financial disaster (though it was written before the stock market collapse), and a post-apocalyptic future. It’s a land where people hide behind walls in a misguided attempt to preserve their “freedom” and protect their riches."Righteous Babe website