Orfeo Explained

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

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

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