Lully: Armide – review

D'Oustrac/Agnew/Naouri/Les Arts Florissants/Christie (FRA, 2DVDs)Those turned off French baroque opera by English National Opera's dreary recent attempt at Rameau's Castor et Pollux may change their minds after seeing Robert Carsen's production of Lully's Armide, filmed in Paris three years ago. Carsen's elegant, stylised approach fits Lully like a glove. His decision to stage the Prologue as a lecture tour of Versailles cleverly reveals the context in which Lully worked as composer to Louis XI...

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