Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Claire Debono

La Gloire

Soprano

Phénice

Lucinde

Isabelle Druet

La Sagesse

Sidonie

Mélisse

Stéphanie d'Oustrac

Armida

Bass-baritone

Nathan Berg

Hidraot

Tenor

Paul Agnew

Renaud

Marc Mauillon

Ubalde

Aronte

Marc Callahan

Artemidor

Andrew Tortise

Rycerz duński

Laurent Naouri

la Haine

Anders J Dahlin

Un Amant Fortuné

Conductor

William Christie

Stage director

Robert Carsen

Set designer

Gideon Davey

Lighting designer

Peter van Praet

Choreographer

Jean-Claude Gallotta

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Others

Les Arts Florissants

Armide

Paris

France

Armide is an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The libretto by Philippe Quinault is based on Torquato Tasso's poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). The work is in the form of a tragédie en musique, a genre invented by Lully and Quinault.

Armide is the last musical tragedy (in five acts and a prologue) completed by Jean-Baptiste Lully. It was composed in 1686 to a libretto by Philippe Quinault and is often considered the masterpiece of the two artists. The subject of the tragedy is borrowed from Tasso's Delivered Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata). It narrates the unhappy love of the magician Armide for the knight Renaud.

Armide Lully

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Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew