Orpheus and Eurydice Resources
Websites
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Check out this great summary of the Orpheus and Eurydice story, as told by myth master Edith Hamilton.
Movie and TV Productions
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Take a look at part one of the Orpheus and Eurydice episode from Jim Henson's "The Storyteller: Greek Myths" television series. You know it's big when the Muppet-Master takes it on.
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Orfeu Negro (or Black Orpheus) is a movie adaptation of the myth set in Brazil. Check out that movie cover.
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Here's a clip from Orphée, a Parisian film based on the myth. Sounds fancy!
Plays, Ballets, and Operas
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Check out this website about the folk opera "Hadestown," which draws heavily from the myth.
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Here you'll see some clips and interviews from the Minnesota Opera's 2010 production of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice.
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Cirque Beserk takes on the myth in its performance, "Beneath."
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Check out a clip of Sarah Ruhl's play Eurydice at the Second Stage Theatre.
Videogames
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Here's a clip of Orpheus in The Battle of Olympus, a Nintendo game from the 1980s. Oh my, that music. (And yes, this is what videogames used to look like.)
Video
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A very pretty portrayal of the myth by Kansas City Art Institute students, using shadow puppets. Pretty stinkin' cool.
Audio
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Listen to some audio samples from Christoph Willibald Gluck's famous opera, Orphee et Euridice.
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Check out this Delphic hymn to Apollo played on an old lyre, like the one Orpheus might have carried.
Books
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Allen Mandlebaum wrote a fantastic translation of Ovid's classic poem Metamorphoses, which includes the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.
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Janet Lembke translates Virgil's poem nature-focused Georgics, which also includes a nod to the tragic myth.
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Neil Gaiman's popular Sandman comic book series includes a retelling of the myth, in an issue called The Song of Orpheus. From epic poetry to modern comics – not too shabby.
Images
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Here, Eurydice arrives in the Underworld – by elevator! – in Sarah Ruhl's play Eurydice (at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre).
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Check out this beautiful, sun-dappled image from the movie Black Orpheus.
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Famous sculptor Auguste Rodin takes on Orpheus and Eurydice. Kind of literal, don't you think?