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 ...

Considered the masterpiece of Jean-Baptiste Lully, the dominant figure in late-17th-century French music, Armide premiered at the Paris Opera in 1686. Now, the opera makes its (somewhat overdue ...

There's about as much dancing as there is singing in Lully's "Armide," which opened on Saturday night at the Glimmerglass Festival. And it's real dancing, too — not those perfunctory turns and ...

Opera Atelier's 30th Anniversary Season begins with a magical production of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Armide, the supreme operatic masterpiece of the 17th century.

So with Dye's experience in the title role of Jean-Baptiste Lully's masterwork, Opera Columbus set out to stage Armide, the composer's tale of the sorceress Armide and her tortured, tragic ...

Opera Atelier's 30th Anniversary Seasonwill celebrate the company's status as the busiest touring opera company in North America. A new Canadian production of Mozart's Lucio Silla (Apr. 7-16, 2016 ...

It's in that role that we hear him with an ensemble called the Concert of Nations. Savall leads a concert performance of excerpts from the opera Alceste by Jean-Baptiste Lully.

The centerpiece of the biennial Boston Early Music Festival is always an opera, performed and staged in period style. This year's project was an outstanding production of Jean-Baptiste Lully's ...

The French Review, Vol. 78, No. 2 (Dec., 2004), pp. 302-315 (14 pages) This essay considers the influence of Philippe Quinault and Jean-Baptiste Lully's operas on the fairy tales of Marie-Catherine ...

After the death of Lully, French composers beginning with Collasse composed Italian arias for their operas thus giving us another measure of Italian influence on French stage music during the ...