Orpheus on a Greek amphora.
The cover of the 1784 Paris edition of the opera score
Hear a passage from Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice (1762).
Orpheus is in the Underworld trying to persuade the Furies to let him though.
The Greek myth of Orpheus from Apollodorus, likely familiar to Mandelstam
For the history of the St. Petersburg 1913 and 1920 productions, see: Malmstad, John E. "A Note on Mandel's^tam's 'V Peterburge my sojdemsja snova'." Russian Literature V-II (1977).
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