Orpheus and Eurydice

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Egyptian tapestry roundel with Orpheus and Eurydice, 5th-6th century AD

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

Literature

The Death of Eurydice episode which occurs in Book X of Metamorphoses by Ovid (8 AD)
The poem "Orpheus and Eurydice" in "The Consolation of Philosophy" by Boethius (594 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)
The Einstein Intersection a novel by Samuel R. Delany (1967)
Gravity's Rainbow, novel by Thomas Pynchon, (1973)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet, novel by Salman Rushdie, (1999)
"Eurydice" a poem by Carol Anne Duffy in her collection of revisionist poems, The World's Wife. (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)
"Hymn to Persephone" a poem by Craig Arnold in Made Flesh (2008)

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)
Metamorphoses, play by Mary Zimmerman (2002)
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)
Looper_(film), film by Rian Johnson (2012)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, film by Alain Resnais (2012)
Orpheus and Eurydice, play by Annie Fan and Melissa Wilkinson (2013)
To Hell and Back, musical by Joel B. New (2013)

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)
From the Underworld, song by the British band The Herd, written by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley (1967)
Orpheus X, rock opera by Rinde Eckert (2007)
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, an album by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (2004)
Don't Look Back, a song by She & Him, written by Zooey Deschanel (2008)
The cover of the album Reflektor by Arcade Fire is a picture of a sculpture of this.