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 ...

Take one neglected masterpiece, stir in a gifted bunch of young singers, add an attentive conductor and a savvy director. Result? The splendid semi-staged production of Gluck's "Armide" that opened at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Magical powers, throngs of followers, independence and an unlimited supply of men: Armide has pretty much everything ...

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 ...

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Armide is a Muslim warrior princess who is so beautiful that opposing forces fall before her. Renaud is a Christian knight on the first Crusades who is out to deliver the Holy Land. They’re at war, ...