It's no longer news that live music – and not just classical – has been imperiled as much as most other human enterprises by COVID-19. Back in the day, productions closed, but now cancellations are of ...

Jean-Baptiste Lully was the toast of the town in France during the Baroque era. The French King loved Lully, and today's Beautiful Music is a live performance of an excerpt from the composer's comédie ...

Chicago Baroque Ensemble; Patrice Michaels Bedi, soprano; John Mark Rozendaal, artistic director (Cedille) As director John Mark Rozendaal has observed, late 17th and early 18th Century France was not ...

Jean-Baptiste Lully is synonymous with the Versailles of Louis XIV with his music composed for and accompanying the grand occasions of the court. Three of the composer’s motets are performed from the ...

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 ...

Hannah French is joined in the Early Music Show studio by musicologists Berta Joncus & Lola Salem to explore the life & music of Jean-Baptiste Lully - favourite of King Louis XIV. Show more Hannah ...

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 - ...

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 ...