La morte d'Orfeo (The Death of Orpheus) is an opera in five acts by the Italian composer Stefano Landi.
The libretto, which may be by the composer himself, is in part inspired by La favola d'Orfeo (1484) by Angelo Poliziano.
After Orpheus has failed to save his wife Eurydice from the underworld, he renounces wine and the love of women.
This offends the god Bacchus who urges his female followers, the Maenads, to kill Orpheus.
Only after the god Mercury shows him that, having drunk the waters of Lethe, Eurydice no longer remembers her husband, does Orpheus agree to ascend to Olympus.