Take one neglected masterpiece, stir in a gifted bunch of young singers, add an attentive conductor and a savvy director. Result? The splendid semi-staged production of Gluck's "Armide" that opened at ...

The works of Christoph Willibald Gluck were still a popular feature of the programme at the Vienna Court Opera until the end of the 19th century. However, for decades thereafter local audiences ...

The Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and The Juilliard School Partnership was announced in February 2008. The Lindemann Young Artist Development Program is under the ...

Armide is not your usual knight-meets-sorceress romance. Considered the masterpiece of Jean-Baptiste Lully, the dominant figure in late-17th-century French music, Armide premiered at the Paris Opera ...

There's about as much dancing as there is singing in Lully's "Armide," which opened on Saturday night at the Glimmerglass Festival. And it's real dancing, too — not those perfunctory turns and courtly ...

Baroque instruments, romantic opera singers and a modern production don't belong together. Yet, at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on Thursday evening, they managed to blend for an effective ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Take one neglected masterpiece, stir in a gifted bunch of young singers, add an attentive conductor and a savvy director. Result? The splendid semi-staged production of Gluck’s ...