Opera
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Armide
15 Mar, 26
Premiere at the Teatro Real
Vincent Dumestre
Le Poème Harmonique
Lully's Armide holds a special place among the most important works in the history of opera – a Baroque masterpiece written by the composer in collaboration with Quinault. This erotic romance between a sorceress and a Crusader knight premieres at the Teatro Real in a concert version, with Vincent Dumestre as musical director.
Tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts
Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Libretto by Philippe Quinault, after Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Gerusalemme liberata (1581)
Premiered at Théâtre du Palais-Royal (Paris) on 15 February 1686
Premiere at the Teatro Real
Concert version
Artistic team
Conductor: Vincent Dumestre
Cast
Armide: Stéphanie d’Oustrac
Renaud: Cyril Auvity
Wisdom / Phénice / Mélisse: Marie Perbost
Glory / Sidonie / Lucinde: Victoire Bunel
Hidraot: Tomislav Lavoie
Hatred / Artémidore: Timothée Varon
The Danish Knight / A happy lover: David Tricou
Le Poème Harmonique
Synopsis and more information
The King of Jerusalem, Hidraot, entrusts his niece, Armide, a Muslim princess, with the task of fighting the Christian crusader army of Godfrey of Bouillon, who is trying to conquer the city. The princess has unleashed all her fury to stop the enemies of her kingdom and has captured hundreds of them with the spell of her gaze, all except for Reinaldo, whom she cannot seduce and has to kill. But she cannot commit the crime herself because she has fallen in love with the young warrior. Defeated and abandoned by her lover, she desperately mourns his betrayal and departure.
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15 December
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16 December
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17 December
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18 December
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19 December
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15 March 2026
19:30
Main Auditorium
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