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ARMIDE

JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY (1632-1687)

Tragedy in music in a prologue and five acts, based on a libretto by Philippe Quinault after Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, first performed at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris in 1686.

d'Oustrac · Auvity · Lavoie · Perbost · Zaïcik
Varon · Tricou · Ancely

Choeur de l'Opéra de Dijon
Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, conductor

Armide was Lully and Quinault's last tragédie lyrique: undoubtedly Quinault's finest dramatic achievement, and the culmination of the tragédie en musique conceived by Lully, who died the year after its creation. Never has language appeared so beautiful and tragic in Lully's music, and the drama of this Christian knight falling in love with the sorceress who refuses to kill him was so deeply felt that it remained on stage for a century! Here, Vincent Dumestre passionately conducts Lully's final masterpiece, whose eponymous character, played by the immense Stéphanie d'Oustrac, never ceases to bewitch us.

Recorded from May 10th to 14th 2023 at the Royal Opera of Versailles

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