In 2006, Vermont singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and a handful of local actors, musicians and artists staged the very first production of her so-called “folk opera,” Hadestown, at the Old Labor Hall ...

A new album has been released titled "Talking Hadestown," a sixteen-part, digital words-and-music experience where Tony and Grammy-Award winning composer Anaïs Mitchell takes listeners through the ...

Following two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the ...

Based on the intertwining Greek myths of doomed lovers Orpheus and Eurydice and underworld villain Hades and his wife Persephone, Hadestown is still going strong after six pandemic-interrupted years ...

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The much-loved contemporary folk musician Anais Mitchell has reached across the pond for new inspiration. British folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention and Martin Carthy are two of the influences ...

Music lovers in Alabama were gifted with a sneak peek of “Hadestown” in September 2007, when Anais Mitchell played a house concert in Birmingham. She performed two or three darkly compelling tunes ...

In the Tony Award-winning show fusing two Greek myths, composer Anaïs Mitchell gets as close to transcendence as any mere ...