Armide (1686) was the last collaboration between Lully and the librettist Quinault. Considered by contemporaries as the perfect exemplar of Lulliste tragédie en musique, it concentrates on the inward ...

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 ...

Armide is not your usual knight-meets-sorceress romance. Considered the masterpiece of Jean-Baptiste Lully, the dominant figure in late-17th-century French music, Armide premiered at the Paris Opera ...

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 ...

Those turned off French baroque opera by English National Opera's dreary recent attempt at Rameau's Castor et Pollux may change their minds after seeing Robert Carsen's production of Lully's Armide, ...

This year Opera Lafayette has devoted most of its season to the Armide Project, a plan to perform two famous operatic realizations of the same libretto, Armide by Philippe Quinault. First on the ...