Bard SummerScape
Film: Orpheus
August 3, 2013
Tickets: $12
Orphée, Jean Cocteau, 1950, France, 95 minutes
Jean Cocteau, who collaborated with Stravinsky on the opera Oedipus Rex in 1927, made this oneiric film about one of the most important Greek myths two years after Orpheus, the ballet Stravinsky developed with George Balanchine, premiered.