- List of Orphean operas
The following is an annotated list of
opera s, listed along with their composers, that are based on the myth ofOrpheus . The works are arranged by date of first performance. In cases when the opera was unperformed, the approximate date of composition is given.1600 - 1699
*1600 -
Jacopo Peri - "Euridice" is the first genuine opera whose music survives to this day. [Howard Meyer Brown, writing in Grove]
*1602 -Giulio Caccini
*1607 -Claudio Monteverdi - Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo " is widely regarded as the first operatic masterwork. [John Whenham, writing in Grove]
*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 - LouisLully
*1698 -Reinhard Keiser
*1699 -André Campra 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. Bachmann1800 - 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 - Godard1900 -
*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 asBlack 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 "Notes
References
*GroveOnline|Orpheus|Frederick W. Sternfeld|15 August|2007
*Various entries on operas, composers and genres from: "Grove Music Online " ed. L. Macy (Accessed 22 August 2007), [http://www.grovemusic.com/ grovemusic.com] , subscription access.
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