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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 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 ...

They say that Louis XIV was 'occupied constantly with the idea of grandeur'. Given this starting-point, Lully as court composer could have been forgiven if his sacred music had overindulged in the ...

This week we review Bellérophon, a rare Baroque opera from Lully which was exhumed by Christophe Rousset and performed for the first time last year, Debussy recorded live from the Barbican, and we ...

Stephen Johnson explores Lully's surviving religious works and finds a composer remarkably attuned to the opportunities and pitfalls of combining theatre and church in music. Show more They say that ...