
Orfeo
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.
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France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada
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FranceFR
- Theatrical18 Oct 1985
GermanyDE
- PremiereMunich International Film Festival1 Jun 1986
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival1 Sept 1985
SwitzerlandCH
- TV30 May 1986
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Orfeo was released on 18 October 1985.
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