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Orfeu is a 1999 Brazilian romantic drama film directed by Carlos Diegues, and starring Toni Garrido, Patrícia França and Murilo Benício.Based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, the film retells the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of Rio de Janeiro during Carnival.
1762 – Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice (French version, Orphée et Euridice, 1774) 1767 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon – The Burletta of Orpheus; 1775 – Antonio Tozzi – Orfeo ed Euridice; 1776 – Ferdinando Bertoni – Orfeo ed Euridice (to the same libretto as Gluck's more famous work) 1781 – Luigi Torelli ...
Francesco Canova da Milano (1497–1543) Luca Francesconi (born 1956) Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942) Massimiliano Frani (born 1967) Vito Frazzi (1888–1975) Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643), organist at St. Peter's Basilica and widely influential keyboard composer; Fabio Frizzi (born 1951) Francesco Paolo Frontini (1860–1939) Martino ...
Michele Soavi (born 1957), film director; known for his film Cemetery Man (1994) Silvio Soldini (born 1958), film director, known films we find Bread and Tulips (1999) and Agata e la tempesta (2004) Paolo Sorrentino (born 1970), film director and screenwriter. He is known for his film The Consequences of Love (2004)
The Orphic Trilogy is a series of three French films written and directed by Jean Cocteau: [1] [2]. The Blood of a Poet, or Le sang d'un poète, 1930; Orpheus, or Orphée (also the title used in the UK), 1950
L'Orfeo (SV 318) (Italian pronunciation: [lorˈfɛːo]), or La favola d'Orfeo [la ˈfaːvola dorˈfɛːo], is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.
The first recording of L'Orfeo was issued in 1939, a freely adapted version of Monteverdi's music edited by Giacomo Benvenuti, [1] given by the orchestra of La Scala Milan conducted by Ferrucio Calusio. [2] [3] [4] In 1949 the Berlin Radio Orchestra under Helmut Koch recorded the complete opera, on long-playing records (LPs).
Orfeo (tenor) Synopsis. An impresario presents a performance of his commedia dell'arte troupe. The performance is interrupted when a man dressed in red, wearing a frightening mask and brandishing a whip, bursts in and scatters the players. The impresario flees as the masked stranger locks all seven players in a large cupboard.