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| Orpheus | |
|---|---|
| Choreographer | George Balanchine |
| Music | Igor Stravinsky |
| Premiere | 28 April 1948 City Center of Music and Drama, New York |
| Original ballet company | Ballet Society |
| Characters | Orpheus, Dark Angel, Eurydice, Leader of the Furies, Leader of the Bacchantes, Apollo, Pluto, Satyr, Nature Spirits, Friends to Orpheus, Furies, Lost Souls, Bacchantes |
| Design | Isamu Noguchi, Jean Rosenthal |
| Genre | Neoclassical ballet |
| Type | Classical ballet |
Orpheus is a thirty-minute neoclassical ballet in three tableaux composed by Igor Stravinsky in collaboration with choreographer George Balanchine in Hollywood, California in 1947. The work was commissioned by the Ballet Society, which Balanchine founded together with Lincoln Kirstein and of which he was Artistic Director. Sets and costumes were created by Isamu Noguchi.