The myth about Orpheus and Eurydice has been re-created, re-interpreted and portrayed countless times since Virgil's writing of the Georgics, including through art, film and television, in the theatre, works of literature, song and dance renditions.
On this website I have compared artistic representations, as well as a television adaptation, to the original myth, providing some reasons that I believe changes have been made, and how some aspects of the myth have remained constant. By displaying these various interpretations of the myth, I want to point out how they all capture the emotion and dramatic nature of Virgil's writing, and the tragic ending to Orpheus and Eurydice's tale.
Alternate interpretations of the myth include:
On this website I have compared artistic representations, as well as a television adaptation, to the original myth, providing some reasons that I believe changes have been made, and how some aspects of the myth have remained constant. By displaying these various interpretations of the myth, I want to point out how they all capture the emotion and dramatic nature of Virgil's writing, and the tragic ending to Orpheus and Eurydice's tale.
Alternate interpretations of the myth include:
- L'Orfeo, a late Renaissance opera composed by Claudio Monteverdi in 1607, which is one of the earliest operas that is still performed today
- Sonnets to Orpheus, a combination of 55 sonnets by poet Rainer Maria Rilke, published in 1923
- Orpheus, a ballet performed by the New York City Ballet Company in 1948, choreographed by George Balanchine
- Black Orpheus, a film by directed by Marcel Camus in 1959
- Orpheus and Eurydice, a rock opera album by composed by Alexander Zhurbin in 1975
- Orpheus and Eurydice: A Myth Underground, a theatre production written by Molly Davies and directed by James Dacre in 2011