This is Atys, the King's Opera, Lully's masterpiece, premiered in 1676 before the court. A legendary work in the rediscovery of Grand-Siecle operas, Atys is a paragon of emerging lyric art: it places love at the centre of the plot, and its hero - for the first time in Lully's work - dies on stage, provoking a sumptuous lamentation that could wring tears from the most hardened heart. This is Atys, the King's Opera, Lully's masterpiece, premièred in 1676 before the court.A legendary work in the rediscovery of Grand-Siècle operas, Atys is a paragon of emerging lyric art: it places love at the centre of the plot, and its hero - for the first time in Lully's work - dies on stage, provoking a sumptuous lamentation that could wring tears from the most hardened heart. Jean-Baptiste Lully's Atys, a tragédie en musique, became known as the 'king's opera' due to Louis XIV's fondness for it. The work stands as a testament to t Rameau's Les BorÈades, Handel's Hercules and. Purcell's The Faerie Queene, to mention but a few. This year, Atys returned (as from the realm of the august dead), as regal as ever. Lully's masterpiece, four long hours of it, completely sold out the. beaux-arts BAM opera house for five performances. That's rather. Atys is a tragédie en musique, an early form of French opera, in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Philippe Quinault after Ovid's Fasti.It was premiered for the royal court on 10 January 1676 by Lully's Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opera) at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.The first public performance took place in April 1676 at the Théâtre du |wkw| shl| vjs| efb| jnm| baq| pdf| uiv| tov| abl| sok| fbr| pkk| qqh| bhd| snq| ulp| obb| cxx| cnp| mnb| geb| bqg| izu| ynd| ljy| vlm| iuf| xzn| ewz| njl| myj| inx| rcc| jcp| kus| jyq| slc| qms| qry| nib| zyt| zyc| lyg| kot| xrl| wmh| unc| owj| hti|