The 1678 tragédie-lyrique, Psyché—composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, librettist Thomas Corneille, and probably dancing master Pierre Beauchamp—everything the form required. In the splendidly staged Boston ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Though inhabited by mythological personages, the operas of Jean- Baptiste Lully are a glittering reflection of the ...

Jean-Baptiste Lully met a rather sticky end. Quite literally, by his own conducting staff. Lully, it is remembered, loved to compose music that could be danced to. As many conductors did at this time, ...

This week we explore two exceptional recent releases of operas by Jean Baptiste Lully (Psyche) and Marin Marais (Semele). Harmonia is a weekly, nationally syndicated radio program hosted by Angela ...

Jean-Baptiste Lully, a master of 17th century French Baroque, answered to both master and muse in his 1675 opera "Thésée." The former was Louis XIV, whose court is celebrated in a long and floridly ...

Throw enough money at opera and this is an art form that can respond with a lavishness no other can match. Louis XIV was certainly not short of cash and the emergence of a national French opera during ...