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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...