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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...