The wrenching beauty of Jean-Baptiste Lully at the Palace of Versailles - IN FOCUS: Simon Mundy attends a weekend of Baroque opera from the Italian-French composer, including a revival of Chateau de V ...

Jean-Baptiste Lully, a master of 17th century French Baroque, answered to both master and muse in his 1675 opera "Thésée." The former was Louis XIV, whose court is celebrated in a long and floridly ...

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 ...