Tag: Orfeo

Bad girls and soul detectors

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Featuring a gorgeous understanding of light, the work feels effortlessly elegant and sexy. It enables you to gratuitously indulge in the sheer beauty of Italian aesthetics of the 1980s. This is a slice of life from Italian literary great, Giolardo Sapienza, luminously directed by Mario Martone and featuring Valeria Golina.

Where to hide your ugly bits

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The chorus of ‘The Portrait of Dorian Gray’ wins the day. It articulates just the right level of shrieking witch howls to keep the work ticking over and yet off-key. The texture of their presence evokes the disparity created by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki in his avant-garde contemplations of horror.