Opera Atelier began its 30th anniversary season Thursday night with a revival of its celebrated production of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Armide, a show that's travelling to the Royal Theatre in Versailles ...

The fatal attraction between a sorceress and a Christian Crusader in Lully's opera Armide is the very definition of angst. For a work written in 1686, Armide was also way ahead of its time since it ...

Lully: Armide Guillemette Laurens, Howard Crook, Veronique Gens, Noemi Rime, Bernard Deletre, Giles Ragon; Collegium Vocale; La Chapelle Royale; Philippe Herreweghe, conductor (Harmonia Mundi). Last ...

When Toronto's Opera Atelier announced that its production of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Armide would be touring to Paris this spring, it sounded like a big step. But, as anyone who attends Armide will ...

All Performances of Jean‐Baptiste Lully: Armide – suite at BBC Music(See all works in BBC Music by Jean‐Baptiste Lully) Sort by Most Recent Oldest ...

It was Louis XIV who chose the subject for Armide, issuing one of his regal instructions to his court composer. This opera was nearly Lully’s last, the culmination of his life’s achievement in ...

Armide is not your usual knight-meets-sorceress romance. Though Mercury Baroque director Antoine Plante will conduct an ensemble of 23 musicians on period instruments, the stage production will have a ...

Every now and then, it is both humbling and salutary to be reminded of how much great music there is that remains to be discovered. Who but a few specialists know more than a handful of Bach's ...

Sometimes slight flaws in an otherwise great opera say, a convoluted plot twist or impractical vocal demands can account for the work’s neglect. That Gluck’s magnificent 1777 “Armide,” a seemingly ...