“Black Orpheus” is a film that art-house audiences in 1959 loved madly. And who can blame them? A buoyant, searingly colorful retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in Rio de ...

By the end of the decade, she would gain wider recognition through her first screen role, in the Oscar-winning 1959 film “Black Orpheus,” which set the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in ...

Originally based on the play Orfeu de Conceicao by the great Moraes, Black Orpheus resets the classic Greek love story of Eurydice and Orfeu against the backdrop of a Rio de Janeiro favela during ...

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance is kicking off its 54th season with "Black Orpheus." The performance includes two different works that celebrate the rich culture of Brazil. It's a cultural fusion in ...