List of Orphean Operas - 17th Century

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 – 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 (music lost)
• 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
• 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