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 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)
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