故事发生在5000年前的埃及。法老胡夫(杰克·霍金斯 Jack Hawkins 饰)四处征战捷报连连,带回了大量的金银财宝和战俘。幻想着获得永生的法老命令战俘中的一位名叫瓦石塔(詹姆斯·罗伯逊·贾斯蒂 James Robertson Justice 饰)的建筑师为他建造金字塔。瓦石塔和胡夫之间达成了协议,根据金字塔工程的推进分批释放战俘。
金字塔的建造有条不紊的进行着,然而,就在工程即将结束之时,野心勃勃的皇妃奈里夫(琼·柯琳斯 Joan Collins 饰)暗杀了胡夫和皇后奈拉(克里玛 Kerima 饰)。皇家祭司哈马(亚历克斯·米诺蒂斯 Alex Minotis 饰)在最后关头遵守了胡夫的承诺,释放了瓦石塔和他的族人。
Synopsis
A sudden gunshot destroys the dream of two lovers. The fate of Orpheus and Eurydice is a cruel one. On their wedding day, her soul is kidnapped and taken down into the Netherworld. Under a metaphysical sky Charon, the taxi driver, waits for the crime to be committed.
COMMENTARY
The movie is an opera-musical with an immersive and transmedial language. The myth is transposed into the contemporary age: Charon is a taxi driver and we go from Paris half under water to the stage of the Teatro Regio in Turin, in a play of musical references that range from Puccini to Händel, from Verdi to Gluck, from Vivaldi to Frankie Goes to Hollywood. And the images fuse words, lyric opera, fashion and the visual arts, between the real and the virtual.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
We created an unexpected encounter between acting and lyric opera, between pop, special effects and images filled with symbolism. Bringing into a cast of extraordinary actors such as Vincent Cassel, Fanny Ardant and Rossy De Palma two young artists selected among hundreds of lyric opera singers: Valentino Buzza and Mariam Battistelli.