Gluck Armide (12/17) Innsbruck 1985

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Gluck Armide Festwoche der Alten Musik Innsbruck - 1985 Armide Jenny Drivala Renaud John Elwes Phenice Guillemette Laurens Sidonie Marie Duisit Hidraot Michel Verschaeve Arone Jean Francois Gardeil Artemidore Jan Honeyman Najade Guillemette Laurens Shephardess Marie Duisit Fury of Hatred Stephanie Friedman Ubalde Michel Verschaeve Danish Knight Antoine David Apparition of Lucinde Guillemette Laurens Apparition of Melisse Marie Duisit Conductor Alan Curtis Armide is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, his fourth for the Parisian stage and the composer's own favourite among his works. It was first performed in Paris at the Académie Royale on September 23, 1777. Gluck set the same libretto Philippe Quinault had written for Lully in 1686, based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). Gluck seemed at ease in facing French traditions head-on when he composed Armide. Lully and Quinault were the very founders of serious opera in France and Armide was generally recognized as their masterpiece, so it was a bold move on Gluck's part to write new music to Quinault's words.

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