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Norwalk Symphony Orchestra Norwalk Symphony Orchestra New York quality local proximity. Home Norwalk Symphony Orchestra Up Next Chamber Series Orpheus and Euridice Friday March 7 2025 at 800pm and Saturday March 8 2025 at 200pm Music Theater of CT 505 Westport Avenue Norwalk CT GordonsOrpheus and Euridiceprovides a retelling of the ancient Greek myth casting a solo soprano as the narrator and briefly also Euridice while inserting a clarinetist into the role of Orpheus the players dynamic instrumental line outlining the voice of this iconic character. Written in honor of his partner Jeffrey Michael Grossi who died of AIDS in 1996 Gordons libretto uses imagery from the AIDS epidemic in altering the plot of the classic story here Euridice dies not from snakebite but from a mysterious disease while Orpheus is forced to look on helplessly his lute failing to offer solace. After traveling through the Underworld and playing music for infernal deities in order to appease them he is granted a second chance at life with Euridice.