In this striking assembly of music and acting, the Orfeo ed Euridice takes its audience through a spectrum of emotions ranging from sadness to guilt to ego and joy. The opera begins with the prince realizing that his beloved wife is dead and he is very sad about it. In the following parts, we find out that the prince strives to bring his lovely wife back from the underground. On his way to meet his wife in the underground, he is surrounded by an army of demons whom he has to satisfy as in order to let him pass and meet his wife. There, in the underground, the prince learns that the cause of his wife's death was not any disease but his own negligence towards her and how his love for his harp competed with her love for him. As they get united in the underground, the prince and the princess begin a journey to return back. This journey, however, is completed only by the prince as his lover falls unconscious in the underground.
In the end, we see the prince walking away through a dark corridor signifying that he has learned to live alone without his harp or his beloved wife.
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