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Showing posts with label Jean-Baptiste Lully. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean-Baptiste Lully. Show all posts

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Opera Review: Here Comes the Sun King

Les Arts Florissants revive Atys at BAM.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
Ed Lyon as Atys (kneeling) mourns the death of Sangaride (Emanuelle de Negri, foreground)
as Cybéle (Anna Reinhold) looks on. Photo by Stephanie Bamberger courtesy Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music opened their 2011 season with the welcome return of Les Arts Florissants, the period performance troupe specializing in French opera of the 1700s. The program: a revival of Atys, the wildly successful fourth opera of Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV.

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