![]() A musical adaptation of Paradise Lost was written by Ben Birney and Rob Seitelman and was performed in New York City in March 2006.The American choral and orchestral composer Eric Whitacre composed an "Electronica Opera" entitled Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, inspired by this text.In the late 1970s, the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki wrote an opera based on Paradise Lost.In 1878 the oratorio Le paradis perdu by the composer Théodore Dubois on a libretto by Alfred-Édouard Blau was performed for the first time at the Théatre Lyrique du Châtelet in Paris.Paradise Lost was, apart from straight quotations of biblical texts, the basis on which the libretto for Joseph Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung ( The Creation, 1798) was built, by, among others, Baron van Swieten.The libretto for John Christopher Smith's oratorio Paradise Lost (1760) was by Benjamin Stillingfleet after Milton.In the web-based collaborative fiction project SCP Foundation an organization known as the Chaos Insurgency uses a quote from Paradise Lost in their logo.Lord Byron alludes to Milton in his works.Valentine can be seen quoting Milton at various times. In Cassandra Clare's young-adult fantasy series The Mortal Instruments, one of the main antagonists, Valentine Morgenstern was inspired by Milton's Lucifer.John Keats's Hyperion is influenced by Paradise Lost.The poem was first published in Icelandic in 1828, translated by Jon Thorlakson. Various snippets from the poem are quoted with admiration during the course of the narrative. ![]()
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