Dates of some Italian "Orfeos" from 1600 onwards

1600. Jacopo Peri, "Orfeo ed Euridice". Performed at Palazzo Pitti, Firenze. The first genuine opera whose music survives to this day. The role of Orfeo played by Peri and in later performances by Basi, who will create the role in Monteverdi's better known version, in Mantova.

1602 - Giulio Caccini, "Orfeo ed Euridice". Caccini's daughter had played Euridice in Peri's version. Caccini managed to publish his own opera before Peri, but it was not performed till 1602.

1607 - Claudio Monteverdi – Monteverdi's "Orfeo", widely regarded as the first operatic masterwork.

1616 - Domenico Belli - "Orfeo dolente".

1619 - Stefano Landi – "La morte d'Orfeo"

1647 - Luigi Rossi – "Orfeo".

1654 - Carlo d'Aquino – Orfeo

1672 - Antonio Sartorio – Orfeo

1676 - Giuseppe di Dia – Orfeo

1677 - Francesco della Torre – Orfeo

1683 - Antonio Draghi – La lira d' Orfeo

1689 - Bernardo Sabadini – Orfeo

1690 - Luigi Lulli – Orfeo.

1699 - André Campra – Orfeo nell'inferni

1715 - Johann Joseph Fux – Orfeo ed Euridice

1749 - Giovanni Alberto Ristori – I lamenti d'Orfeo

1762 - Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice. Contains: "Che faro senza Euridice?", also set by Bertoni. Published by Ricordi 1889. Recorded by Tito Schipa with the Milano orchestra "Grammofono" and by Pavarotti in concert (to piano accompaniment).

1775 - Antonio Tozzi – Orfeo ed Euridice

1776 - Ferdinando Bertoni – Orfeo ed Euridice (to the same libretto as Gluck's more famous work)

1781 - Luigi Torelli – Orfeo

1789 - Vittorio Trento – Orfeo negli Elisi

1791 - Joseph Haydn – L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice. On DVD with Bertoli.

1791 - Ferdinando Paer – Orfeo.

1796 - Luigi Lamberti – Orfeo
1796 - Francesco Morolin – Orfeo ed Euridice

1814 - Marchese Francesco Sampieri – Orfeo.

1858 - Jacques Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers. On DVD.

1925 - Gian Francesco Malipiero – L'Orfeide.

1932 - Alfredo Casella – La favola d'Orfeo, chamber opera after Poliziano's L'Orfeo

1996 - Lorenzo Ferrero - Orfeo, musical action in one act, libretto by Lorenzo Ferrero and Dario Del Corno, premiered at the Teatro Filarmonico