Editing Prometheus (section)

===Post-Renaissance aesthetic tradition===
====Visual arts====
[[Image:Prometheus (1930) de José Clemente Orozco en Pomona College.jpg|thumb|[[José Clemente Orozco]]'s fresco mural ''[[Prometeo del Pomona College]]'' (1930)]]

Prometheus has been depicted in a number of well-known artworks, including Mexican muralist [[José Clemente Orozco]]'s ''[[Prometheus (Orozco)|Prometheus]]'' fresco at [[Pomona College]]<ref name="PMOA">{{cite web |title=José Clemente Orozco's Prometheus |url=https://www.pomona.edu/museum/collections/jos%C3%A9-clemente-orozcos-prometheus |website=Pomona College |access-date=18 May 2020 |archive-date=2 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702141646/https://www.pomona.edu/museum/collections/jos%C3%A9-clemente-orozcos-prometheus |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="TSL">{{cite news |last1=Sutton |first1=Frances |title=Framed: 'Prometheus' — the hunk without the junk at Frary |url=https://tsl.news/the-hunk-without-the-junk-at-frary/ |access-date=18 May 2020 |work=[[The Student Life]] |date=28 February 2020 |archive-date=2 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702141635/https://tsl.news/the-hunk-without-the-junk-at-frary/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Paul Manship]]'s bronze sculpture ''[[Prometheus (Manship)|Prometheus]]'' at [[Rockefeller Center]] in Manhattan.

====Classical music, opera, and ballet====
Works of classical music opera, and ballet directly or indirectly inspired by the myth of Prometheus have included renderings by some of the major composers of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.<!--CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER; please include date when adding--> In this tradition, the orchestral representation of the myth has received the most sustained attention of composers. These have included the symphonic poem by [[Franz Liszt]] titled ''[[Prometheus (Liszt)|Prometheus]]'' from 1850, among his other [[Symphonic poems (Liszt)|Symphonic Poems]] (No. 5, S.99).<ref>Liszt: Les Preludes / Tasso / Prometheus / Mephisto Waltz No. 1 by Franz Liszt, Georg Solti, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris (1990).</ref> [[Alexander Scriabin]] composed ''[[Prometheus: Poem of Fire]]'', Opus 60 (1910),<ref>Scriabin: Symphony No. 3 The Divine Poem, Prometheus Op. 60 The Poem of Fire by Scriabin, Richter and Svetlanov (1995).</ref> also for orchestra.<ref>Scriabin: Complete Symphonies/Piano Concerto/Prometheus/Le Poeme de l'extase by A. Scriabin (2003), Box Set.</ref> In the same year [[Gabriel Fauré]] composed his three-act opera ''[[Prométhée]]'' (1910).<ref>Prométhée; Tragédie Lyrique En 3 Actes De Jean Lorrain & F.a. Hérold (French Edition) by Fauré, Gabriel, 1845–1924, Paul Alexandre Martin, 1856–1906. Prométhée, . Duval and A.-Ferdinand (André-Ferdinand), b. 1865. Prométhée, Herold (Sep 24, 2012).</ref> [[Charles-Valentin Alkan]] composed his ''[[Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges']]'' (1847), with the 4th movement entitled "Prométhée enchaîné" (Prometheus Bound).<ref>Grand Sonata, Op. 33, "Les quatre ages" (The four ages): IV. 50 ans Promethee enchaine (Prometheus enchained): Extrement lent, Stefan Lindgren.</ref> [[Beethoven]] composed the score to a ballet version of the myth titled ''[[The Creatures of Prometheus]]'' (1801).<ref>Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus by L. von Beethoven, Sir Charles Mackerras and Scottish Chamber Orchestra (2005).</ref>

An adaptation of Goethe's poetic version of the myth was composed by [[Hugo Wolf]], ''Prometheus'' (''Bedecke deinen Himmel, Zeus'', 1889), as part of his [[Goethe]]-[[lieder]] for voice and piano,<ref>Goethe lieder. Stanislaw Richter. Audio CD (July 25, 2000), Orfeo, {{ASIN|B00004W1H1}}.</ref> later transcribed for orchestra and voice.<ref>Orff, Carl. Prometheus. Voice and Orchestra. Audio CD (February 14, 2006), Harmonia Mundi Fr., {{ASIN|B000BTE4LQ}}.</ref> An opera of the myth was composed by [[Carl Orff]] titled ''[[Prometheus (Orff)|Prometheus]]'' (1968),<ref>Orff, Carl (2005). ''Prometheus'', Audio CD (May 31, 2005), Arts Music, {{ASIN|B0007WQB6I}}.</ref><ref>Orff, Carl (1999). ''Prometheus'', Audio CD (November 29, 1999), Orfeo, {{ASIN|B00003CX0N}}.</ref> using Aeschylus' Greek language ''[[Prometheia]]''.<ref>Prometheus libretto in modern Greek and German translation, 172 pages, Schott; Bilingual edition (June 1, 1976), {{ISBN|3795736412}}.</ref> A tradition has of course grown among critics of finding allusions to ''Prometheus Bound'' in [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Ring cycle]]''.<ref name="bellring">{{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Richard H. |title=Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I: The Genesis and Development of the Tetralogy and the Appropriation of Sources, Artists, Philosophers, and Theologians |date=2020 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aNXaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA124|page=124|isbn=9781498235648 }}</ref>

[[Rudolf Wagner-Régeny]] composed the [[Prometheus (opera)]] in 1959. Another work inspired by the myth, ''[[Prometeo]]'' (Prometheus), was composed by [[Luigi Nono]] between 1981 and 1984 and can be considered a sequence of nine cantatas. The libretto in Italian was written by [[Massimo Cacciari]], and selects from texts by such varied authors as Aeschylus, [[Walter Benjamin]] and [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] and presents the different versions of the myth of Prometheus without telling any version literally.