Eurydice in a sentence

Telling the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice through American folk and New Orleans jazz is a hell of a premise — and fortunately, Hadestown delivers the idea faultlessly.

He was going to probe the belly of the beast and bring back British sovereignty, like Hercules bringing Eurydice (sic) back from the underworld.

Kathryn Lewek as Eurydice and Marcel Beekman in the production, which plays with different tones and time periods.

Ms Herron is the fourth young woman to be killed in a public Melbourne place in the past 12 months, including the June rape and murder of aspiring comedian Eurydice Dixon, 22, in a neighbouring suburb.

Of course, Orpheus's doubts get the better of him as he's about to emerge, and he turns around just enough to see Eurydice's spirit pulled back into the underworld forever.

Orpheus travels all the way to the underworld to plead his case to Hades, who tells Orpheus that he will release Eurydice on one condition.

Take the 2019 film Portrait of a Lady On Fire, in which the two protagonists explore dueling interpretations of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.

We’re reviving my Orpheus and Eurydice at the Met next year.

Eurydice Dixon, 22, was killed just hours after performing a gig in Melbourne’s Highlander bar.

In this other version Orpheus must not say Eurydice’s name because this, rather than turning to see if she is following him, will abandon her to that no place of shadows.

Liv Redpath as Amour, left, Maxim Mironov as Orpheus, and (presumably it’s her shadow) Lisette Oropesa as Eurydice.

As in the legend, Orpheus travels to Hades, plays his sad music, loses Eurydice again, and gets torn apart by the Bacchanae (the beloved madwomen of Dionysus ) but because of his immortality survives as a disembodied head.

As with the standard myth, Orphée must not look back, or he will lose Eurydice forever ("Ne regarde pas en arrière!").

Eurydice, however, has discovered what she thinks is a plot by Orphée to kill Aristée, but is in fact a conspiracy between him and Pluton to kill her, so Pluton may have her.

Eurydice sneaks in disguised as a bacchante ("J'ai vu le dieu Bacchus"), but Jupiter's plan to sneak her out is interrupted by calls for a dance.

He meets Eurydice on the other side, and sings a love duet with her where his part consists entirely of buzzing ("Bel insecte à l'aile dorée").

Her suicide triggers the suicide of two others close to King Creon: his son, Haemon, who was to wed Antigone, and his wife, Eurydice, who commits suicide after losing her only surviving son.

Only when Orpheus came down to the Underworld to rescue Eurydice did it stop spinning because of the music Orpheus was playing.

She seeks to rework the story of Orphée (Orpheus) and Eurydice – who, despite being husband and wife, hate each other – into a moral tale for the ages.

The fact that they did not try to take the throne before the 350s suggests that they were younger that Amyntas' children by Eurydice.