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 ...
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 ...