Take one neglected masterpiece, stir in a gifted bunch of young singers, add an attentive conductor and a savvy director. Result? The splendid semi-staged production of Gluck's "Armide" that opened at ...

Armide is not your usual knight-meets-sorceress romance. Though Mercury Baroque director Antoine Plante will conduct an ensemble of 23 musicians on period instruments, the stage production will have a ...

There's about as much dancing as there is singing in Lully's "Armide," which opened on Saturday night at the Glimmerglass Festival. And it's real dancing, too — not those perfunctory turns and courtly ...

Sometimes slight flaws in an otherwise great opera say, a convoluted plot twist or impractical vocal demands can account for the work’s neglect. That Gluck’s magnificent 1777 “Armide,” a seemingly ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Richard Ouzounian is a former theatre critic and entertainment reporter for The Star.

When Toronto's Opera Atelier announced that its production of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Armide would be touring to Paris this spring, it sounded like a big step. But, as anyone who attends Armide will ...