Did Orpheus have stage fright? To oneself, to the other, to the transcendent: steps for coping with music performance anxiety
Frontiers in Psychology December 17, 2025 Natalija Šimunovič
Orpheus, as an archetypal model of musical performance, enters our cultural consciousness not only as an exemplary performer but also as a figure whose fleeting glance into the visible shattered the magic of creation. Through this metaphor, for three millennia we have (re)interpreted the deeper projection of the conflict between the artistic idea and the performer's inner tension (Partridge,...