Black Orpheus

Marcel Camus

Eurydice as a country girl at Rio's Carnival — Camus' Palme d'Or retelling makes her the myth's living heart.

Orfeo ed Euridice

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Gluck names both lovers in the title — Euridice's loss drives the reform opera's most famous lament.

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

Mitchell's Broadway Eurydice walks into Hades' industrial underworld of her own will — the myth retold from her side.

Eurydice

The bride who dies on her wedding day and almost returns — Eurydice remains the name for love lost by a backward glance.

Hades

Supergiant Games

Orpheus and Eurydice appear as underworld NPCs — the game restores their song after the glance that broke them.