Film

Orfeo

1985 · 1h 32m · Fantasy · Music

IMDb

7.6

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.

Gino Quilico

Orfeo

Audrey Michael

Euridice / La Speranza / Eco

Carolyn Watkinson

La messaggiera

Danielle Borst

Proserpina

• Claude GorettaDirector

Release date

October 18, 1985

Status

Released

Original language

Italian

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Fantasy, Music