Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It blends versions of two ancient Greek myths, Orpheus and Eurydice and Hades and Persephone, to explore enduring and contemporar
Branding as seen on the Walter Kerr Theatre
Set of the Broadway production
Eurydice was a character in Greek mythology and the wife of Orpheus, whom Orpheus tried to bring back from the dead with his enchanting music.
Eurydice with Orpheus and Hermes, 1st-century Roman marble relief in the Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy.
Charles-François Lebœuf, Dying Eurydice (1822), marble
Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1806, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Statue of Eurydice at Schönbrunn Palace; note the snake biting her foot