La Fabula di Orpheo

A film by Rémy Campos and Aurélien Poidevin on Francis Biggi's research project "La Fabula d'Orpheo d'Angelo Poliziano", 2014.

This project was conceived in collaboration with the Royaumont Foundation (Paris) around an interdisciplinary work, intended to reread and reinterpret Poliziano's Orpheo (ca 1480), the music of which we do not possess, according to the latest perspectives proposed by research in the various fields concerned: philology, musical analysis, ethnomusicology, improvisation practice, staging, gesture, choreography. It has led to a series of stage performances at the Fondation Royaumont, the Concertgebouw in Bruges, the Batîment des Forces Motrices in Geneva, the Festival les Chemins du Baroque, Sarrebourg and several national venues in France, as well as the 'Pietre che Cantano' series in Ticino.

In 2007, a CD was produced for the K617 production company. The CD was very well received by European critics, including a Choc du Monde de la Musique in France in January 2008.