List of Orphean operas
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The following is an annotated list of operas, listed along with their composers, that are based on the myth of Orpheus. The works are arranged by date of first performance. In cases when the opera was unperformed, the approximate date of composition is given.
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[edit] 1600 - 1699
- 1600 - Jacopo Peri - Euridice is the first genuine opera whose music survives to this day.[1]
- 1602 - Giulio Caccini
- 1607 - Claudio Monteverdi - Monteverdi's L'Orfeo is widely regarded as the first operatic masterwork.[2]
- 1616 - Domenico Belli
- 1619 - Stefano Landi La morte d'Orfeo
- 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 - C. d'Aquino
- 1659 - Johann Jakob Löwe von Eisenach
- 1672 - Antonio Sartorio
- 1673 - Matthew Locke
- 1676 - G. di Dia
- 1677 - F. della Torre
- 1683 - Johann Phiipp Krieger
- 1683 - Antonio Draghi
- c 1685 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier La descente d'Orphée aux enfers
- 1689 - Bernardo Sabadini
- 1690 - Louis Lully
- 1698 - Reinhard Keiser
- 1699 - André Campra
[edit] 1700 - 1799
- 1701 - John Weldon
- 1715 - Johann Joseph Fux
- 1726 - Georg Philipp Telemann Orpheus
- 1740 - John Frederick Lampe
- c. 1740 - Jean-Philippe Rameau (project)
- 1749 - Giovanni Alberto Ristori
- 1750 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil
- 1752 - Carl Heinrich Graun Orfeo
- 1762 - Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice (French version, Orphée et Euridice, 1774)
- 1767 - François Hippolyte Barthélemon
- 1775 - Antonio Tozzi
- 1776 - Ferdinando Bertoni Orfeo ed Euridice (to the same libretto as Gluck's more famous work)
- 1781 - L. Torelli
- 1785 - Friedrich Benda
- 1786 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann Orpheus og Eurydice
- 1788 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
- 1788 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt
- 1789 - Vittorio Trento
- 1791 - Joseph Haydn L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice
- 1791 - Ferdinando Paer Orphée et Euridice
- 1792 - Peter Winter
- 1793 - Prosper-Didier Deshayes
- 1796 - L. Lamberti
- 1796 - F.Morolin
- c.1796, before 1797 - Antoine Dauvergne
- 1798 - G. Bachmann
[edit] 1800 - 1899
- 1802 - Carl Cannabich
- 1807 - Friedrich August Kanne
- 1813 - Ferdinand Kauer
- 1814 - L. Sampieri
- 1858 - Jacques Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers, 1858
- 1860 - G. Michaelis
- 1867 - K. F. Konradin
- 1887 - Godard
[edit] 1900 -
- 1902 - Sélim
- 1907 - F. de Azevedo e Silva
- 1907–16 - Claude Debussy (project)
- 1913 - Jean Roger-Ducasse Orphée
- 1925 - Gian Francesco Malipiero
- 1925 - Darius Milhaud Les malheurs d'Orphée
- 1926 - Ernst Krenek Orpheus und Eurydike
- 1932 - Alfredo Casella La favola d'Orfeo
- 1956 - Tom Jobim,Vinícius de Moraes Orfeo da Conceição (translated to cinema as Black Orpheus)
- 1978 - Hans Werner Henze Orpheus (Viennese version 1986)
- 1986 - Harrison Birtwistle The Mask of Orpheus
- 1993 - Philip Glass Orphée
- 2005 - Ricky Ian Gordon Orpheus and Euridice
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Frederick W. Sternfeld. "Orpheus", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed 15 August 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
- Various entries on operas, composers and genres from: Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 22 August 2007), grovemusic.com, subscription access.
