Operas based on Metamorphoses

'''''L'Orfeo (SV 318) (), or La favola d'Orfeo''' , is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica'', or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. It is based on the Greek legend of Orpheus, and tells the story of his descent to Hades and his fruitless attempt to bring his dead bride Eurydice back to the living world. It was written in 1607 for a court performance during the annual Carnival at Mantua. While Jacopo Peri's Dafne is generally recognised as the first work in the opera genre, and the earliest surviving opera is Peri's Euridice, ''L'Orfeo'' is the e

opera by Mozart

opera by Jacopo Peri

Dafne (, Italian for "Daphne") is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini, based on an earlier intermedio created in 1589, "Combattimento di Apollo col serpente Pitone" ("the battle between Apollo and Python"), and set to music by Luca Marenzio, survives complete. The opera is considered to be the first "modern music drama."

masque by Handel (1718)

oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Joseph Haydn

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Francesco Cavall

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

oratorio in three acts by George Frideric Handel

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Franz von Suppé

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opéra comique by Charles Gounod

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opera by Francesco Cavalli

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Giulio Caccini

opera by Marco da Gagliano

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

cantata

1762 influential dramatic work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

opera by Jean-Marie Leclair

opera/ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau

festa teatrale by Christoph Willibald Gluck

opera by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

opera by Christoph Willibald von Gluck

opera by Francesco Cavalli

opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

opera by Henze

opera by Schütz with libretto by Opitz

opera by the French composer Marin Marais

Opera intermezzo by Johann Adolph Hasse