Jean-Baptiste Lully, born Giovanni Battista Lulli in Florence in 1632, moved to France early in his career. By the time he turned 30, he had been named music master to the royal family and elevated to the nobility. Italian opera, particularly the works of Cavalli, had become hugely popular in France, and Lully took up the task of creating a ...
CPO follows its stellar releases of Conradi's Ariadne and Lully's Thésée by the Boston Early Music Festival with an equally extraordinary performance of Lully's Psyché. These are works that have had limited exposure and are known far better by reputation than by performances or recordings. What's revelatory about the recordings of the Lully operas ...
Our American Cousin was the name of the play being performed at Ford's Theatre the night John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Librettist John Shoptaw examines the assassination from the perspective of the actors who were performing the play, and the middle part of the opera is essentially a musical setting of the play, with ...
Lukas Foss' 1944 oratorio The Prairie, based on a poem by Carl Sandburg, easily falls into the same category as extended American vernacular vocal works such as Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley (1948) and Aaron Copland's The Tender Land (1954). However, unlike these other pieces, The Prairie -- which went a large way toward making the reputation of ...
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