This is not a love story between mythic heroes. Love (like opera) is merely an excuse to explore our impulses as full-fledged drama queens. What interests us is the vulnerability of the human body and the gravitas evoked by a deep yearning for melodrama.

For Orfeo and Euridice, their desire to encounter death is, above all, sensual. They are bodies suspended at the precarious edge between the living and the dead. We envisioned what it might be like to step into Hades’ body and recognized that the journey to death and back should be a deeply corporeal experience.