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, ...

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 ...

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The Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival gave early-music lovers the royal treatment Friday evening at St. Mark's Episcopal Church with the Washington premiere of six baroque suites by Jean-Baptiste ...

In Molière's France, there was no such thing as a "bourgeois gentleman"... The comédie-ballet takes a stab at both the pretentious, vulgar middle class, but also the aristocracy. Jean Baptiste Lully ...

When it comes to anecdotes about musicians, the one about 17th century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully certainly ranks among the most bizarre. Lully, who spent much of his career writing music for ...

Those turned off French baroque opera by English National Opera's dreary recent attempt at Rameau's Castor et Pollux may change their minds after seeing Robert Carsen's production of Lully's Armide, ...

* The performance on Thursday 25 July will be streamed live from the Glyndebourne festival. Click here for details Cori Ellison (CE): French Baroque opera is new to Glyndebourne and to many opera fans ...