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 ...

For nearly three decades, Opera Lafayette has steadily been expanding America’s understanding of 17th- and 18th-century opera and, more specifically, works of the French baroque. Founded during the ...

Introduction / Paul Henry Lang -- The first opera in Paris : a study in the politics of art / Neal Zaslaw -- Michel Lambert and Jean-Baptiste Lully : the stakes of a collaboration / Catherine Massip - ...

One of Lully's most grandiose tragic operas is brought back to life by the French ensemble devoted entirely to reviving France's musical heritage of the 17th and 18th centuries - La Simphonie du ...