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The fly duet from the 1887 revival of Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) with Jeanne Granier as Eurydice and Eugène Vauthier as Jupiter. In this raucous retelling of Greek myth, Orpheus and Eurydice hate each other (but the embodiment of Public Opinion will ruin Orpheus' reputation if he does not try and rescue her), Pluto is in love with Eurydice, but life in Hades is too boring for her, and Jupiter takes all the gods down below to party – and to try to seduce Eurydice. In the form of a fly.