Orfeo

Last updated October 07, 2025

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Orfeo is Italian for Orpheus, a figure in Greek mythology who was chief among poets and musicians.

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Opera
People
Other
See also

Opera

L'Orfeo , a 1607 opera by Claudio Monteverdi
La morte d'Orfeo , a 1619 opera by Stefano Landi
Orfeo (Rossi), a 1647 opera by Luigi Rossi
Orfeo (Sartorio), a 1672 opera by Antonio Sartorio
La Descente d'Orphée aux enfers H.488 (1686), opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Orfeo ed Euridice , a 1762 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
L'Orfeide , a 1925 opera by Gian Francesco Malipiero

People

Orfeo Vecchi (1551–1603), Italian composer
Orfeo Boselli (1597–1667), Italian sculptor
Orfeo Orfei (1836–1915), Italian painter
Orfeo Angelucci (1912–1993), "contactee" who claimed to be in contact with extraterrestrials
Orfeo Reda (1932–2025), Italian painter and artist

Other

Sir Orfeo , a Middle English narrative poem
Orfeo (novel), a novel by Richard Powers
Orfeo (record label), a German record company
Orfeo (spider), genus of spiders
Orfeo Programme, a planned European Space Agency mission
Orfeo Superdomo, a sports arena in Argentina
Orfeo toolbox, image processing software
Samba de Orfeu, song by jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond
Orfeo, song by Italian and French singer Dalida

See also

Orfei, an Italian family name
Orpheus (disambiguation), the English and German spelling
Orphée (disambiguation), the French spelling
Orfeas (disambiguation), Ορφέας, the Greek spelling
Orfeu (disambiguation), the Portuguese spelling
Orfey (disambiguation), Орфей, the Russian spelling

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