Orfeo

Orfeo (1985)

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.

Date of release
1985-10-18
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Fantasy, Music
Director
Claude Goretta

Casting

Interesting facts

Orfeo is a 1985 opera film co-written and directed by Claude Goretta. A co-production between Switzerland, Italy, France and Canada, it is an adaptation of the opera L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi. It premiered out of competition at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival.

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