←Galaxy/The codex of Pylades

Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Pylades.

On screen

FILM · 1962READ MORE ↗

Electra

Michalis Cacoyannis

Cacoyannis keeps Pylades as Orestes' steadfast companion — the friend who shares the road home and the blood that waits there.

In music & on stage

OPERA · 1779READ MORE ↗

Iphigénie en Tauride

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Gluck's Pylades is the friend who offers to die for Orestes — the Tauris recognition trio's third voice, and one of opera's great portraits of loyalty.

OPERA · 1819READ MORE ↗

Ermione

Gioachino Rossini

Rossini brings Pylades to Epirus at Orestes' side — still the companion, now in a court intrigue over Hermione and Andromache.