Jean-Baptiste Lully met a rather sticky end. Quite literally, by his own conducting staff. Lully, it is remembered, loved to compose music that could be danced to. As many conductors did at this time, ...
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 ...
Cornish Presents: Baroque Music for the Theater: Purcell, Lully and HandelSunday | November 167 pm | Cornish Playhouse at Seattle CenterThe renowned Cornish Early Music faculty present an evening of ...
In Molière's France, there was no such thing as a "bourgeois gentleman"... The comédie-ballet takes a stab at both the pretentious, vulgar middle class, but also the aristocracy. Jean Baptiste Lully ...
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 - ...
When it comes to anecdotes about musicians, the one about 17th century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully certainly ranks among the most bizarre. Lully, who spent much of his career writing music for ...
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