Orpheus Paris' Montmartre) in search of his fortune and ultimately to attempt the rescue of his doomed love. The film adapts a widely known piece from Jacques Offenbach's comedic operetta "Orphée aux enfers" ("Orpheus in the Underworld"), identified with the once-popular can-can music hall dance. Offenbach's operatic work had itself parodied the classical tale of Orpheus' attempted rescue of Eurydice from Pluto (Hades). Gavin Bryars' music for Édouard Lock's full length ballet "Dido and Orfeo" (2011) reworks music from the operas "Dido and Aeneas" (Purcell) and "Orfeo ed Euridice" (Gluck) for a small ensemble of saxophone, viola, cello and piano. Orpheus
The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus weekly engagement at Mory's Temple Bar. The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus records a new album every other year. Since its founding, it has recorded and released 21 albums: The album, "Some Pig!," has been reviewed by the Recorded A Cappella Review Board. The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, also known as the SOBs, is an all-male "a cappella" singing group from Yale University. Founded in 1938, The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus is the second longest-running a cappella group in the United States, after the Yale Whiffenpoofs. Alumni of the SOBs have gone