Undine (alchemy) - Cultural Reproductions

Cultural Reproductions

• Fantasy authors will sometimes employ undines in their fiction, often as elementals rather than another type of water spirit, such as in in China Miéville's New Crobuzon trilogy.
• In the Mana video game series, the water spirit is called Undine, as is the water-based summoning spirit in the game Tales of Symphonia, as well as the other "Tales of" games..
• In Hart Crane's poem "Voyages II", from his 1926 collection White Buildings, the poet describes the sea as, "Her undinal vast belly moonward bends."
• Genesis' 1973 song "Firth of Fifth" makes reference to "Ondinal Songs".
• Hans Werner Henze/Frederick Ashton's ballet Ondine, about a water nymph, was choreographed for Margot Fonteyn. The ballet and the operas of the same name by Albert Lortzing and E. T. A. Hoffmann are independent adaptations of a Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué novella.
• One of the sections of Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit is titled "Ondine".
• Claude Debussy's Book II of Preludes includes one (no. 8) titled "Ondine".
• Piano music composed by Cécile Chaminade. Op. 101 is titled "l'ondine"
• The film Ondine stars Colin Farrell as a fisherman who discovers an apparent selkie called Ondine.
• Audrey Hepburn received a Tony Award for her theatrical performance in the 1954 Broadway play Ondine.
• Undines appear in the fantasy role-playing video game Riviera: The Promised Land, although they more closely resemble mermaids.
• Undine is a main elemental water spirit character in Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll