Opera

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Armide

15 Feb, 26

Premiere at the Teatro Real

Lully's Armide holds a special place among the most important works in the history of opera – a Baroque masterpiece written by the composer in collaboration with Quinault. This erotic romance between a sorceress and a Crusader knight premieres at the Teatro Real in a concert version, with Vincent Dumestre as musical director.


Tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts
Music: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Libretto: Philippe Quinault, after Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Gerusalemme liberata (1581)
Concert version


Artistic team

Conductor: Vincent Dumestre


Cast

Armide
Stéphanie d’Oustrac  

Renaud
Cyril Auvity

Wisdom / Phénice / Mélisse
Marie Perbost 

Glory / Sidonie / Lucinde
Victoire Bunel

Hidraot
Tomislav Lavoie

Hatred / Artémidore
Timothée Varon     

The Danish Knight / A happy lover
David Tricou

Le Poème Harmonique

Synopsis and more information

The King of Jerusalem, Hidraot, entrusts his niece, Armide, a Muslim princess, with the task of fighting the Christian crusader army of Godfrey of Bouillon, who is trying to conquer the city. The princess has unleashed all her fury to stop the enemies of her kingdom and has captured hundreds of them with the spell of her gaze, all except for Reinaldo, whom she cannot seduce and has to kill. But she cannot commit the crime herself because she has fallen in love with the young warrior. Defeated and abandoned by her lover, she desperately mourns his betrayal and departure.

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15 December

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16 December

2025

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17 December

2025

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18 December

2025

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19 December

2025

Performances

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15 February 2026

19:30

Main Auditorium

Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Cyril Auvity, Marie Perbost , Victoire Bunel, Tomislav Lavoie, David Tricou
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