Orfeo

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

Orfeo may refer to:

People

• Orfeo Boselli (1597–1667), ]Italian sculptor
• Orfeo Orfei (1836–1915), Italian painter
• Orfeo Vecchi (c. 1551–1603), Italian composer

Literature

• Sir Orfeo, a Middle English narrative poem
• Orfeo (novel), a novel by Richard Powers

Music

• Orfeo (record label), a German record company

Operas

• L'Orfeo, an opera by Claudio Monteverdi
• Orfeo (Rossi), an opera by Luigi Rossi
• Orfeo ed Euridice, an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
• La morte d'Orfeo, an opera by Stefano Landi
• Orfeo (Sartorio), an opera by Antonio Sartorio
• L'Orfeide, an opera by Gian Francesco Malipiero

Songs

• Samba de Orfeu, song by jazz composer, Paul Desmond

Place

• Orfeo Superdomo, a sports arena in Argentina

Astronomy

• Orfeo Programme, a planned 2017 European Space Agency mission
• Orfeo toolbox, associated image processing software

Other

• Orfeo (spider), genus of spiders

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