Martin, 79, is a singer-songwriter, former member of the famed Worcester rock band Orpheus, journalist and sociopolitical activist who now lives in Hull but grew up in Worcester and was part of the cultural scene here in the 1960s... Orpheus ascending.
One of the plays that makes this very explicit is the rarely performed OrpheusDescending from 1957, given an outstanding outing by Conjure Productions.
Orpheus... “The Dstl Orpheus mission is an important opportunity for Astroscale to ... The name Orpheus is after the poet of classical legend. Presumably the two satellites will be Orpheus and Eurydice.
L’Orfeo (Orpheus) Opera, by Monteverdi. Universally acknowledged as opera’s first masterpiece, Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orpheo (Orpheus) was a gelling of ideas from the great minds of the Camerata and other composers of that time.