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 Lyre of Orpheus (novel) The Lyre of Orpheus (novel) The Lyre of Orpheus, first published by Macmillan of Canada in 1988, is the last of the three connected novels of the "Cornish Trilogy" by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. It was preceded by "The Rebel Angels" (1981) and "What's Bred in the Bone" (1985). In "The Lyre of Orpheus", the executors of the will of Francis Cornish (the subject of "What's Bred in the Bone") find themselves at the head of the "Cornish Foundation". The 5 directors of the Foundation, the 3 remaining Frank Cornish's estate executors, being Professor the Reverend Simon Darcourt, Arthur Cornish,