Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. No expense was spared for the premiere of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Thésée in early 1675. Louis XIV had lavished ...
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 ...
Lully's Thésée was first performed before Louis XIV at Versailles in 1675. Dramatically, it forms a sequel to Euripides' Medea, and depicts the eponymous sorceress - now a refugee at the Athenian ...
Jean-Baptiste Lully's Thésée was a hit at the Paris Opera for nearly a century after its premiere in 1675. But like everything else Lully created, it was written to please just one person: Louis XIV, ...
Composed in 1675, Thesee is Lully’s third full-scale tragedie lyrique in collaboration with the librettist Quinault, and presents a typical love tangle: Athe ...
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