In the 15th-century Italian Arthurian romance La Tavola Ritonda, Medea lives on as the marvelously beautiful mistress of the island Perfida's Cruel Castle (Castello Crudele) in which she imprisons the hero Tristano (
Tristan), as "every year she wanted to bent a [different] knight to her pleasure" for she was "the most lecherous woman in the world". Tristano, faithful to his true love
Isolda, manages to escape from Medea's magic castle.
Stuart Hill, Blade Of Fire (Character portrayed as based on Medea in this Young adult novel)
Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero; Medea, having been resurrected by vengeful goddess Gaea (Mother Earth), runs a department store in Chicago. She appears again in The Burning Maze and is shown to work under
Caligula.
Kerry Greenwood, Medea: Book III in the Delphic Women Series (1997) a retelling of the Jason and the Argonauts epic, focusing on the Princess and Priestess, Medea of Colchis.
Dea Loher, Manhattan Medea (1999) in German; play set in modern-day Manhattan; Medea and Jason are living as illegal immigrants, until Jason marries the daughter of a rich businessman, abandoning Medea and their child; the play takes place on their wedding night.
Jan Siegel, The Dragon Charmer (2000) A side note in an epic trilogy about witchcraft, sorcery, and magic.
David Vann, Bright Air Black (2017) retells Medea's story in prose poetry from a third person perspective. It is both lyrical and mired in Bronze Age realism.
Madeline Miller, Circe (2018) narrates Medea's visit to her aunt Circe to be cleansed for the killing of her brother.
Ben Morgan, Medea in Corinth (2018) is a sequence of poems and dramatic interludes which focus on Medea's religious encounter with Hecate. It includes a sonnet sequence composed of letters to Creusa, her love rival, illuminating their relationship.
In 2024,
Dark Horse Comics released the English version of Medea, a Belgian graphic novel retelling written by Blandine Le Callet and illustrated by
Nancy Peña.[2]
Art
This section needs expansion. You can help by
adding to it. (May 2019)
Luigi Cherubini composed the opera Médée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best-known work, but better known by its Italian version, Medea. A lost aria, which Cherubini apparently smudged out in spite more than 200 years ago, was revealed by x-ray scans.
Simon Mayr composed his opera Medea in Corinto to a libretto of Giuseppe Felice Romani. It premiered in Naples in 1813.
Ray E. Luke's Medea won the 1979 Rockefeller Foundation/New England Conservatory Competition for Best New American Opera.
Jacob Druckman's 1980 orchestral work, Prism, is based on three different renderings of the Medea myth by Charpentier, Cavalli, and Cherubini. Each movement incorporates material and quotations from the music of Druckman's three predecessors. At the time of his death, Druckman was writing a large-scale grand opera on the Medea myth commissioned by the
Metropolitan Opera.
Star of Indiana—the drum and bugle corps that Blast! formed out of—used Parados, Kantikos Agonias, and
Dance of Vengeance in their 1993 production (with Bartók's Allegro from Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste), between Kantikos and Vengeance.
In 1993
Chamber Made produced an opera Medea composed by Gordon Kerry, with text by Justin Macdonnell after Seneca.
In 1991, the world premiere was held in the
Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao of the opera Medea by
Mikis Theodorakis. This was the first in Theodorakis' trilogy of lyrical tragedies, the others being Electra and Antigone.
Oscar Strasnoy's opera Midea (2), based on Irina Possamai's libretto, premiered in 2000 at Teatro Caio Melisso,
Spoleto, Italy. Orpheus Opera Award.
Rockettothesky medea 2008
instrumental chamber music piece Medea by
Dietmar Bonnen 2008
Dutch progressive rock band
Kayak, with the song "Medea", on their 2008 release Coming Up For Air
Dutch one-man project
Spinvis, with the song "Medea", in his album Goochelaars & Geesten in 2007
The Finnish melodic death metal band
Insomnium has a song about her called "Medeia" on their album In the Halls of Awaiting, which was released in 2002.
Greek epic metal band Battleroar has a song named "The Curse of Medea" in their 2014 album Blood of Legends.
Mauro Lanza composed the music to Le Songe De Médée, a ballet choreographed by Angelin Prelijocaj for the
Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris and featured in the filmLa Danse.
Alina Novikova (composer) and Daria Zholnerova, produced an opera Medea, based on Innokentiy Annenskiy, Evripid's translation. First performed in 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The southern metal band
The Showdown has a song called "Medea - One Foot In Hell" on their album Back Breaker, which was released in 2008.
English National Opera produced a UK premier staging of Charpentier's opera Médée in 2013. Director,
David McVicar, Médée,
Sarah Connolly
In 2014, Dutch symphonic/progressive metal band
Ex Libris released their second album
Medea. It is a concept album which tells the tragic story of Medea.
In the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts, Medea was portrayed by
Nancy Kovack. Here, she is a temple dancer who Jason saves after her ship sinks, causing her to help him.
In the
2002 biopic of Mexican artist
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera's previous wife Lupe Marín (played by Valeria Golino) and Frida Kahlo (played by
Salma Hayek) talk of Lupe's response to Diego's infidelity. In response, Frida points a knife in a non-threatening gesture at Lupe, and calls her "Medea".
In the 2005 film L'enfer (Hell) a student Anne (
Marie Gillain) takes a formal oral exam on the subject of Medea. Her words are spoken over images of her sister Sophie (
Emmanuelle Béart) playing with her two children implying an
analogy.[3]
In the 2004
visual novel as well as the
anime adaptations of Fate/stay night, Medea appears as a relatively major character under the title of Caster.
In 2005, director Theo van Gogh created 6-part miniseries, moving Medea to Dutch politics.
In 2007, director
Tonino De Bernardi filmed a modern version of the myth, set in Paris and starring
Isabelle Huppert as Medea, called Médée Miracle. The character of Medea lives in Paris with Jason, who leaves her.
In 2009, Medea was shot by director Natalia Kuznetsova. Film was created by the tragedy of Seneca in a new-for-cinema genre of Rhythmodrama, in which the main basis of acting and atmosphere is music written before shooting.
In the 2013 television series Atlantis, Medea is portrayed by Scottish actress
Amy Manson.
In the 2015 television series Olympus, Medea is portrayed by actress Sonita Henry.
The 2015 television series Doctor Foster was inspired by the myth of Medea.
In 2016, Olivia Sutherland played Medea in the MacMillan Films staging of Euripides' classic.
Between June and August 2016, the Cuban Broadcasting Radio Progreso presented the 60 chapters series The Mark of Medea written by Orelvis Linares and directed by Alfredo Fuentes. In the series, two women, played by the actresses Arlety Roquefuentes and Rita Bedias, commit crimes inspired by the myth of Medea. This first of them castrates her lover in revenge by his treason. The second one drowns her own four-year-old daughter in a pond because the baby disturbed her plans of living with her lover.
Theatre
In 2012, Australian playwrights Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks retold the myth of Medea from her and Jason's doomed children's points of view.[4]
Summoned as Servant Caster in the mobile game Fate/Grand Order in two variants: as an adult who experienced Jason's betrayal already and as a young teen in the time of her just meeting Jason called "Medea Lily". In the stories of Fuyuki, Older Medea is darkened and has become an antagonist, while in the Okeanos storyline, where her younger self lies with Jason in the ship, Argo, she is both the protagonist and the antagonist.
The
Persona of
Chidori Yoshino in the 2006 game Persona 3 and its subsequent rereleases (FES , Portable and Reload). In the game she is portrayed with the skull of a ram and curly yellow hair, most likely representing her involvement in the story of the golden fleece.
References
^Fragments are printed and discussed by Theodor Heinze, Der XII. Heroidenbrief: Medea an Jason Mit einer Beilage: Die Fragmente der Tragödie Medea P. Ovidius Naso. (in series
Mnemosyne, Supplements, 170. 1997.
In the 15th-century Italian Arthurian romance La Tavola Ritonda, Medea lives on as the marvelously beautiful mistress of the island Perfida's Cruel Castle (Castello Crudele) in which she imprisons the hero Tristano (
Tristan), as "every year she wanted to bent a [different] knight to her pleasure" for she was "the most lecherous woman in the world". Tristano, faithful to his true love
Isolda, manages to escape from Medea's magic castle.
Stuart Hill, Blade Of Fire (Character portrayed as based on Medea in this Young adult novel)
Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero; Medea, having been resurrected by vengeful goddess Gaea (Mother Earth), runs a department store in Chicago. She appears again in The Burning Maze and is shown to work under
Caligula.
Kerry Greenwood, Medea: Book III in the Delphic Women Series (1997) a retelling of the Jason and the Argonauts epic, focusing on the Princess and Priestess, Medea of Colchis.
Dea Loher, Manhattan Medea (1999) in German; play set in modern-day Manhattan; Medea and Jason are living as illegal immigrants, until Jason marries the daughter of a rich businessman, abandoning Medea and their child; the play takes place on their wedding night.
Jan Siegel, The Dragon Charmer (2000) A side note in an epic trilogy about witchcraft, sorcery, and magic.
David Vann, Bright Air Black (2017) retells Medea's story in prose poetry from a third person perspective. It is both lyrical and mired in Bronze Age realism.
Madeline Miller, Circe (2018) narrates Medea's visit to her aunt Circe to be cleansed for the killing of her brother.
Ben Morgan, Medea in Corinth (2018) is a sequence of poems and dramatic interludes which focus on Medea's religious encounter with Hecate. It includes a sonnet sequence composed of letters to Creusa, her love rival, illuminating their relationship.
In 2024,
Dark Horse Comics released the English version of Medea, a Belgian graphic novel retelling written by Blandine Le Callet and illustrated by
Nancy Peña.[2]
Art
This section needs expansion. You can help by
adding to it. (May 2019)
Luigi Cherubini composed the opera Médée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best-known work, but better known by its Italian version, Medea. A lost aria, which Cherubini apparently smudged out in spite more than 200 years ago, was revealed by x-ray scans.
Simon Mayr composed his opera Medea in Corinto to a libretto of Giuseppe Felice Romani. It premiered in Naples in 1813.
Ray E. Luke's Medea won the 1979 Rockefeller Foundation/New England Conservatory Competition for Best New American Opera.
Jacob Druckman's 1980 orchestral work, Prism, is based on three different renderings of the Medea myth by Charpentier, Cavalli, and Cherubini. Each movement incorporates material and quotations from the music of Druckman's three predecessors. At the time of his death, Druckman was writing a large-scale grand opera on the Medea myth commissioned by the
Metropolitan Opera.
Star of Indiana—the drum and bugle corps that Blast! formed out of—used Parados, Kantikos Agonias, and
Dance of Vengeance in their 1993 production (with Bartók's Allegro from Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste), between Kantikos and Vengeance.
In 1993
Chamber Made produced an opera Medea composed by Gordon Kerry, with text by Justin Macdonnell after Seneca.
In 1991, the world premiere was held in the
Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao of the opera Medea by
Mikis Theodorakis. This was the first in Theodorakis' trilogy of lyrical tragedies, the others being Electra and Antigone.
Oscar Strasnoy's opera Midea (2), based on Irina Possamai's libretto, premiered in 2000 at Teatro Caio Melisso,
Spoleto, Italy. Orpheus Opera Award.
Rockettothesky medea 2008
instrumental chamber music piece Medea by
Dietmar Bonnen 2008
Dutch progressive rock band
Kayak, with the song "Medea", on their 2008 release Coming Up For Air
Dutch one-man project
Spinvis, with the song "Medea", in his album Goochelaars & Geesten in 2007
The Finnish melodic death metal band
Insomnium has a song about her called "Medeia" on their album In the Halls of Awaiting, which was released in 2002.
Greek epic metal band Battleroar has a song named "The Curse of Medea" in their 2014 album Blood of Legends.
Mauro Lanza composed the music to Le Songe De Médée, a ballet choreographed by Angelin Prelijocaj for the
Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris and featured in the filmLa Danse.
Alina Novikova (composer) and Daria Zholnerova, produced an opera Medea, based on Innokentiy Annenskiy, Evripid's translation. First performed in 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The southern metal band
The Showdown has a song called "Medea - One Foot In Hell" on their album Back Breaker, which was released in 2008.
English National Opera produced a UK premier staging of Charpentier's opera Médée in 2013. Director,
David McVicar, Médée,
Sarah Connolly
In 2014, Dutch symphonic/progressive metal band
Ex Libris released their second album
Medea. It is a concept album which tells the tragic story of Medea.
In the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts, Medea was portrayed by
Nancy Kovack. Here, she is a temple dancer who Jason saves after her ship sinks, causing her to help him.
In the
2002 biopic of Mexican artist
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera's previous wife Lupe Marín (played by Valeria Golino) and Frida Kahlo (played by
Salma Hayek) talk of Lupe's response to Diego's infidelity. In response, Frida points a knife in a non-threatening gesture at Lupe, and calls her "Medea".
In the 2005 film L'enfer (Hell) a student Anne (
Marie Gillain) takes a formal oral exam on the subject of Medea. Her words are spoken over images of her sister Sophie (
Emmanuelle Béart) playing with her two children implying an
analogy.[3]
In the 2004
visual novel as well as the
anime adaptations of Fate/stay night, Medea appears as a relatively major character under the title of Caster.
In 2005, director Theo van Gogh created 6-part miniseries, moving Medea to Dutch politics.
In 2007, director
Tonino De Bernardi filmed a modern version of the myth, set in Paris and starring
Isabelle Huppert as Medea, called Médée Miracle. The character of Medea lives in Paris with Jason, who leaves her.
In 2009, Medea was shot by director Natalia Kuznetsova. Film was created by the tragedy of Seneca in a new-for-cinema genre of Rhythmodrama, in which the main basis of acting and atmosphere is music written before shooting.
In the 2013 television series Atlantis, Medea is portrayed by Scottish actress
Amy Manson.
In the 2015 television series Olympus, Medea is portrayed by actress Sonita Henry.
The 2015 television series Doctor Foster was inspired by the myth of Medea.
In 2016, Olivia Sutherland played Medea in the MacMillan Films staging of Euripides' classic.
Between June and August 2016, the Cuban Broadcasting Radio Progreso presented the 60 chapters series The Mark of Medea written by Orelvis Linares and directed by Alfredo Fuentes. In the series, two women, played by the actresses Arlety Roquefuentes and Rita Bedias, commit crimes inspired by the myth of Medea. This first of them castrates her lover in revenge by his treason. The second one drowns her own four-year-old daughter in a pond because the baby disturbed her plans of living with her lover.
Theatre
In 2012, Australian playwrights Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks retold the myth of Medea from her and Jason's doomed children's points of view.[4]
Summoned as Servant Caster in the mobile game Fate/Grand Order in two variants: as an adult who experienced Jason's betrayal already and as a young teen in the time of her just meeting Jason called "Medea Lily". In the stories of Fuyuki, Older Medea is darkened and has become an antagonist, while in the Okeanos storyline, where her younger self lies with Jason in the ship, Argo, she is both the protagonist and the antagonist.
The
Persona of
Chidori Yoshino in the 2006 game Persona 3 and its subsequent rereleases (FES , Portable and Reload). In the game she is portrayed with the skull of a ram and curly yellow hair, most likely representing her involvement in the story of the golden fleece.
References
^Fragments are printed and discussed by Theodor Heinze, Der XII. Heroidenbrief: Medea an Jason Mit einer Beilage: Die Fragmente der Tragödie Medea P. Ovidius Naso. (in series
Mnemosyne, Supplements, 170. 1997.