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Lully – Passacaille from Armide – Organ Solo, Performed by Jonathan Scott
Organist Jonathan Scott performs his solo organ arrangement of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Passacaille from the opera Armide….
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Armide – Full Opera by Gluck
Netherlands Opera performs Gluck’s opera, Armide….
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Exploring Classical Music by Century- Five Works from Each Era
…expressive vocal lines, and a captivating retelling of the Orpheus myth. 2. Lully’s Armide Armide is an opera in five acts composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The opera, first performed in…
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
…with librettist Philippe Quinault, and together they created a new form of opera that combined music, drama, dance, and spectacle. Lully’s operas, such as “Cadmus et Hermione” (1673) and “Armide”…
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
…operas, including Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) and Armide (1777), adapted his reforms to suit the French opera tradition, which emphasized ballet and choral elements. Gluck’s time in Paris also saw…
