Opera Atelier began its 30th anniversary season Thursday night with a revival of its celebrated production of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Armide, a show that's travelling to the Royal Theatre in Versailles ...
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 ...
Aug. 23 at 7:30: The leading summer opera company of the Northeast gives listeners one more chance to take in its impressive lineup of shows. The festival has made its first plunge into the French ...
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 ...