Editing Odyssey (section)

=== Opera and music ===
{{see also|Category:Operas based on the Odyssey}}
* ''[[Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria]]'', first performed in 1640, is an opera by [[Claudio Monteverdi]] based on the second half of Homer's ''Odyssey''.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Monteverdi's 'The Return of Ulysses' |url=https://www.npr.org/2007/03/23/9078832/monteverdis-the-return-of-ulysses |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224131808/http://www.npr.org/2007/03/23/9078832/monteverdis-the-return-of-ulysses |archive-date=2017-02-24 |newspaper=NPR|date=23 March 2007 }}</ref>
* [[Rolf Riehm]] composed an opera based on the myth, ''[[Sirenen|Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens]]'' (''Sirens – Images of Desire and Destruction''), which premiered at the [[Oper Frankfurt]] in 2014.<ref name="Griffel">{{Cite book |last=Griffel |first=Margaret Ross |title=Operas in German: A Dictionary |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-4422-4797-0 |page=448 |chapter=Sirenen |author-link=Margaret Ross Griffel |entry-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-xEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA448 |access-date=3 October 2020 |archive-date=13 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813013154/https://books.google.com/books?id=H-xEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA448 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Robert W. Smith (musician)|Robert W. Smith]]'s second symphony for concert band, ''The Odyssey'', tells four of the main highlights of the story in the piece's four movements: "The Iliad", "The Winds of Poseidon", "The Isle of Calypso", and "Ithaca".<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Iliad (from The Odyssey (Symphony No. 2)) |url=https://www.alfred.com/the-iliad-from-the-odyssey-symphony-no-2/p/00-BDM00052/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808130104/https://www.alfred.com/the-iliad-from-the-odyssey-symphony-no-2/p/00-BDM00052/ |archive-date=8 August 2020 |website=www.alfred.com}}</ref>
* Jean-Claude Gallota's ballet ''[[Ulysse (ballet)|Ulysse]]'',<ref name="LeMoal">[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k12005041/f629 Entrée ''Ulysse''], Philippe Le Moal, ''Dictionnaire de la danse'' (in French), [[éditions Larousse]], 1999 {{ISBN|2035113180}}, {{p.|507}}.</ref> based on the ''Odyssey'', but also on the work by [[James Joyce]], ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]''.<ref name="RomaEuropa">[http://www.romaeuropa.net/archivio/eventi/ulysse/stile.html ''Esiste uno stile Gallotta ?''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070401213110/http://www.romaeuropa.net/archivio/eventi/ulysse/stile.html |date=1 April 2007 }} by Marinella Guatterini in 1994 on Romaeuropa's website (in Italian).</ref>
*Jorge Rivera-Herrans' [[sung-through]] work ''[[Epic: The Musical]]'' tells the story of the ''Odyssey'' over the course of nine "sagas", beginning with the end of the Trojan War and carrying through to Odysseus' homecoming to Ithaca.<ref name="Troy Saga">{{Cite web |last=Rabinowitz |first=Chloe |title=Epic: The Troy Saga Passes 3 Million Streams in First Week of Release |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/EPIC-THE-TROY-SAGA-Passes-3-Million-Streams-in-First-Week-of-Release-20230104 |access-date=30 November 2024 |website=[[BroadwayWorld]] |language=en |archive-date=13 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113012848/https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/EPIC-THE-TROY-SAGA-Passes-3-Million-Streams-in-First-Week-of-Release-20230104 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Music Review">{{Cite web |last=McKinnon |first=Madeline |title=Music Review: 'Epic: The Musical' |url=https://ndsuspectrum.com/music-review-epic-the-musical/ |access-date=30 November 2024 |website=The Spectrum |language=en-US |archive-date=9 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109021335/https://ndsuspectrum.com/music-review-epic-the-musical/ |url-status=live }}</ref>