Opera Atelier/Opéra Royal de Versailles: Armide (Lully)

Armide, music by Jean-Baptiste Lully; text by Philippe Quinault, after Gersusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. First performed: Palais Royal, Paris, 15 Feb. 1686. Royal Opera, Versailles – 11 May 2012, presented by Opera Atelier (Toronto) Cast: Peggy Kriha Dye (Armide), Colin Ainsworth (Renaud/Amant fortunée), João Fernandes (Hidraot), Meghan Lindsay (Sidonie/Nymphe), Carla Huhtanen (Phénice/Lucinde), Olivier Laquerre (Artémidore/Ubalde), Aaron Ferguson (Chevalier Danois), Curtis Sullivan (La Haîne), Vasil Garvanliev (Aronte).…

CMBV/Opéra d’Avignon/Opéra de Massy: Amadis (Lully)

Amadis, tragédie en lyrique in a prologue and five acts, by Jean-Baptiste Lully [1684], libretto by Philippe Quinault, after Essart’s translation of Los quatros libros del virtuoso cavallero Amadis de Gaula by Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo (c.1492). Cast: Cyril Auvity (Amadis), Katia Velletaz (Oriane), Isabelle Druet (Arcabonne), Alain Buet (Arcalaüs), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Florestan), Dagmar Šašková (Corisande), Hjördis Thebault…