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 ...

Opera Columbus and Ballet Met collaborate on a new production of Lully's baroque spectacle, Armide at the Southern theater September 17, 18 and 20. The choreography is by Ballet Met's own Edwaard ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 courtly ...

Two virgins define the world of Armide , Jean Baptiste Lully ‘s psychologically telling opera about the clash of Moslems and Christians in the 1099 Crusade. At first, power and glory are the key ...

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 ...

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 ...