List of Orphean operas

17th century

• 1600 – Jacopo Peri – Euridice, the first genuine opera whose music survives to this day.
• 1602 – Giulio Caccini – Euridice
• 1607 – Claudio Monteverdi – Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, widely regarded as the first operatic masterwork.
• 1616 – Domenico Belli's Orfeo dolente, a set of intermedi presented between the acts of Tasso's Aminta
• 1619 – Stefano Landi – La morte d'Orfeo
• 1638 – Heinrich Schütz – Orpheus und Euridice
• 1647 – Luigi Rossi – Orfeo, one of the first operas to be performed in France. Rossi's own wife died while he was composing the score.
• 1654 – Carlo d'Aquino – Orfeo
• 1659 – Johann Jakob Löwe von Eisenach – Orpheus von Thracien
• 1672 – Antonio Sartorio – Orfeo
• 1673 – Matthew Locke – Orpheus and Euridice, a masque presented between the acts of Elkanah Settle's The Empress of Morocco
• 1676 – Giuseppe di Dia – Orfeo
• 1677 – Francesco della Torre – Orfeo
• 1683 – Johann Philipp Krieger – Orpheus und Eurydice
• 1683 – Antonio Draghi – La lira d'Orfeo
• c 1685 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier – La descente d'Orphée aux enfers H 488
• 1689 – Bernardo Sabadini – Orfeo
• 1690 – Louis Lully – Orphée
• 1698 – Reinhard Keiser – Die sterbende Eurydice oder Orpheus
• 1699 – André Campra – Orfeo nell'inferni, Italian-language intermedio of Le carnaval de Venise

  18th century

• 1701 – John Weldon – Orpheus and Euridice
• 1715 – Johann Fux – Orfeo ed Euridice
• 1722 – Georg Caspar Schürmann – Orpheus
• 1726 – Georg Philipp Telemann – Orpheus
• 1740 – John Frederick Lampe – Orpheus and Eurydice
• c. 1740 – Jean-Philippe Rameau –
• 1749 – Giovanni Alberto Ristori – I lamenti d'Orfeo
• 1750 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil – Euridice
• 1752 – Carl Heinrich Graun – Orfeo
• 1762 – Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice
• 1767 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon – The Burletta of Orpheus
• 1775 – Antonio Tozzi – Orfeo ed Euridice
• 1776 – Ferdinando Bertoni – Orfeo ed Euridice
• 1781 – Luigi Torelli – Orfeo
• 1785 – Friedrich Benda – Orpheus
• 1786 – Johann Gottlieb Naumann – Orpheus og Eurydice
• 1788 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Orpheus der Zweyte
• 1788 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Orpheus
• 1789 – Vittorio Trento – Orfeo negli Elisi
• 1791 – Joseph Haydn – L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice
• 1791 – Ferdinando Paer – Orphée et Euridice
• 1792 – Yevstigney Fomin – Орфей и Эвридика
• 1792 – Peter Winter – Orpheus und Euridice
• 1793 – Prosper-Didier Deshayes – Le petit Orphée
• 1796 – Luigi Lamberti – Orfeo
• 1796 – Francesco Morolin – Orfeo ed Euridice
• c.1796, before 1797 – Antoine Dauvergne – Orphée
• 1798 – – Der Tod des Orpheus/Orpheus und Euridice''

  19th century

• 1802 – Carl Conrad Cannabich – Orpheus
• 1807 – Friedrich August Kanne – Orpheus
• 1813 – Ferdinand Kauer – Orpheus und Euridice, oder So geht es im Olympus zu
• 1814 – Marchese Francesco Sampieri – Orfeo
• 1858 – Jacques Offenbach – Orpheus in the Underworld
• 1860 – Gustav Michaelis – Orpheus auf der Oberwelt
• 1867 – Karl Ferdinand Konradin – Orpheus im Dorfe

  20th century

• 1907 – Fernando de Azevedo e Silva – A morte de Orfeu
• 1907–16 – Claude Debussy –
• 1913 – Jean Roger-Ducasse – Orphée, premiered at the Palais Garnier in a production mounted by Ida Rubinstein.
• 1925 – Gian Francesco Malipiero – L'Orfeide, cycle in three parts: I. La morte delle maschere, II. Sette canzoni, III. Orfeo
• 1925 – Darius Milhaud – Les malheurs d'Orphée, chamber opera with a libretto by Armand Lunel
• 1926 – Ernst Krenek – Orpheus und Eurydike
• 1932 – Alfredo Casella – La favola d'Orfeo, chamber opera after Poliziano's L'Orfeo
• 1951 – Pierre Schaeffer – Orphée 51
• 1953 – Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry – Orphée 53
• 1978 – Hans Werner Henze – Orpheus
• 1986 – Harrison Birtwistle – The Mask of Orpheus
• 1993 – Philip Glass – Orphée, chamber opera with a libretto adapted by the composer from Jean Cocteau's film of the same name
• 1996 – Lorenzo Ferrero – La nascita di Orfeo, musical action in one act, libretto by Lorenzo Ferrero and Dario Del Corno, premiered at the Teatro Filarmonico

  21st century

• 2001 – Jonathan Dove – L'altra Euridice, a 30-minute opera in one act for baritone and ensemble, based on a story by Italo Calvino, which retells the Orphean myth from the perspective of Pluto, god of the underworld.
• 2009 – Harrison Birtwistle – The Corridor, a 48-minute chamber opera for two singers and small ensemble.
• 2015 – John Robertson – Orpheus, an hour-long masque in 6 scenes commissioned and performed by Rousse State Opera
• 2020 – Matthew Aucoin – Eurydice, a three-act opera in English with libretto by Sarah Ruhl based on her play of the same name, premiered at the Los Angeles Opera