Orpheus and Eurydice

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Contents 1 Literature 2 Film and drama 3 Music and ballet 4 Visual arts

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Film and drama

• The Orphic Trilogy, series of films by Jean Cocteau, (1930-1959)
• Eurydice (play), play by Jean Anouilh, (1941)
• Orpheus Descending, play by Tennessee Williams, (1957)
• Orfeu Negro, film by Marcel Camus, (1959)
• Eurydice (play), play by Sarah Ruhl, (2003)

[edit] 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 (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)

[edit] Visual arts

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