Orfeo

Orfeo

1985
1h 32m
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Overview

Claude Goretta brings to life the age-old tale of Orpheus and Eurydice in a fresh adaptation of Monteverdi’s Orfeo. Monteverdi’s fabled opera Orfeo was long described as the first opera to have been written. Although modern scholarship has proven this to be untrue, the work remains one of the pillars of western music history, a musical creation which laid the foundations for much of what was to come. As musicologist Jack Westrup explains, Orfeo marked a major milestone not because it broke new ground, but because imagination had taken precedence over theory. While Monteverdi may not have been a revolutionary, his music represents the culmination of centuries of musical evolution, and shows him as the clear master of both polyphony and monody.

Status: Released

Language: IT

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Production Information

Production Companies
Gaumont Erato Films France 2 Radio France Istituto Luce-Italnoleggio Cinematografico Radio Canada SRG SSR
Production Countries
France Italy Switzerland Canada
Spoken Languages
Italian

Quick Facts

Release Date October 18, 1985
Status Released
Language IT
IMDb ID tt0089737

Cast

Gino Quilico
Gino Quilico

Orfeo

Audrey Michael
Audrey Michael

Euridice / La Speranza / Eco

Carolyn Watkinson
Carolyn Watkinson

La messaggiera

Danielle Borst
Danielle Borst

Proserpina

Key Crew

Claude Goretta
Director

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