This Intriguing and Beautiful Folk Opera Delivers a Deeply Resonant and Defiantly Hopeful Theatrical Experience. Following Two Intertwining Love Stories - That of Young Dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and of Immortal King Hades and Lady Persephone - Hadestown Invites Audiences on a Hell-Raising Journey to the Underworld and Back. Inspired by Traditions of Classic American Folk Music and Vintage New Orleans Jazz, Mitchell's Beguiling Sung-Through Musical Pits Industry Against Nature, Doubt Against Faith, and Fear Against Love.