Is it possible that Hades is a tragic figure, driven by loneliness, jealousy, and doubt? Orpheus imagines Hades as a King of Pain, trapped in the spider web of his own emotions… “He thinks of his wife in the arms…
The day comes when Persephone must return to the Underworld, and the train comes to pick her up. “Winter’s nigh and summer’s o’er Hear that high and lonesome sound Of my husband coming for To bring me home to Hadestown…”…
Eurydice, with all the love and joy a heart can hold, asks this of Orpheus: promise me that things will always be this way. “I promise,” he says – and I would have believed that boy too. One’s heart breaks…