There are few operas or tragedies dealing with the myth of Orpheus in France during the classical era. The two works studied in this article (Orphée by Louis Lully and Michel Du Boullay, Orphée by François-Joseph de Lagrange-Chancel) belong to the Racinian tragedy’s tradition and use the aesthetic canons of the lyric tragedy as created by Lully. The aim here is to show how these works put the myth into a new perspective by integrating a reflection on the notion of tragic as well as on Evil. Moreover, we will question their position in relation to tradition, especially Italian.