Orpheus and Eurydice

Orpheus and Eurydice is a tale from Greek legend. Works making holistic use of this legend include:

Literature

• The Death of Eurydice episode which occurs in Book X of Metamorphoses by Ovid (8 AD)
• Sir Orfeo, anonymous narrative poem (c. late thirteenth century)
• The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene, poem by Robert Henryson (c.1470)
• Sonnets to Orpheus, allusive sonnet sequence by poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1922)
• Gravity's Rainbow, novel by Thomas Pynchon, (1973)
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet, novel by Salman Rushdie, (1999)
• Veniss Underground, novel by Jeff Vandermeer, (2003)
• Enchanted Fire a romance novel by Roberta Gellis, (1996)
• Poetry and Fear a novel by Grace Andreacchi, (2008)

Film and drama

• The Orphic Trilogy, series of films by Jean Cocteau (1930-1959)
• Eurydice (Anouilh play), play by Jean Anouilh (1941)
• Orpheus Descending, play by Tennessee Williams (1957)
• Black Orpheus, film by Marcel Camus (1959)
• An episode of The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1990)
• Orfeu, film by Cacá Diegues (1999)
• Eurydice (Ruhl play), play by Sarah Ruhl (2003)
• Hadestown, folk opera by Anaïs Mitchell (2006)
• Orpheus and Eurydice: A Myth Underground, theatre production written by Molly Davies with music by James Johnston, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for the National Youth Theatre at the Old Vic Tunnels, directed by James Dacre (2011)
• Orpheus & Eurydice (musical), musical by Andrew Hanley and Melissa Nally (2011)

Music and ballet

• Euridice (opera), opera by Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini with librettist Ottavio Rinuccini (1600)
• L'Orfeo, first opera composed by Monteverdi (1607)
• Orfeo ed Euridice, opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1762)
• Orpheus in the Underworld, operetta by Jacques Offenbach (1858)
• Orpheus und Eurydike, opera by Ernst Krenek (1926)
• Orpheus (ballet), ballet made by choreographer George Balanchine to music by Stravinsky (1948)
• Orpheus and Eurydice (rock opera), rock opera album by Alexander Zhurbin (1975)
• The Mask of Orpheus, opera by composer Harrison Birtwistle and librettist Peter Zinovieff (1986)
• Metamorpheus, orchestral album by former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett (2005)
• Eurydice song by Sleepthief featuring Jody Quine (2006)
• Hadestown, album of songs from the folk opera of the same name by Anaïs Mitchell (2010)

Visual arts

• Orpheus and Eurydice (Titian), painting of 1511 by Titian
• Orpheus and Eurydice (Poussin), painting of 1650-1651 by Poussin

Videogames

• The Battle of Olympus, NES and Gameboy video game by Infinity
• Don't Look Back (video game), Atari VCS-styled Flash game by Terry Cavanagh