Anouk Defontenay; David Tricou; Eva Zaicik; Jeanne Lefort; Le Poeme Harmonique; Marie Perbost; Timothee Varon; Tomislav Lavoie; Virgile Ancely; Vincent Dumestre; Stephanie d'Oustrac; Cyril Auvity - Lully: Armide

Armide was Lully and Quinault's last tragedie lyrique: undoubtedly Quinault's finest dramatic achievement, and the culmination of the tragedie en musique conceived by Lully, who died the year after its creation. Never has language appeared so beautiful and tragic in Lully's music, and the drama of this Christian knight falling in love with the sorceress who refuses to kill him was so deeply felt that it remained on stage for a century! Here, Vincent Dumestre passionately conducts Lully's last masterpiece, whose eponymous character, played by the immense Stephanie d'Oustrac, never ceases to bewitch us.