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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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VERSAILLES, FRANCE—They clapped, they cheered, then they clapped in rhythm. And when all of that hadn’t exhausted the enthusiasm of the opening night audience for the Opera Atelier production of ...

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 ...

Aidan Lang delivers a fitting denoument to his time as artistic director at Buxton directing Christophe Gluck’s opera Armide. There is an air of sadness about this year’s 28th Buxton festival, even ...