List of Orphean Operas - 20th Century

20th Century

• 1907 – Fernando de Azevedo e Silva – A morte de Orfeu
• 1907–16 – Claude Debussy – (unfinished project)
• 1913 – Jean Roger-Ducasse – Orphée, premiered at the Opéra 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 (Viennese version 1986)
• 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