It's a courtly spectacle from a bygone age, combining music, dance and lavish costumes to retell a myth of human lovers undone by a vengeful goddess. It's also a surprisingly modern psychological ...

Co-produced by Opéra Comique, BAM, Théâtre de Caen, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Les Arts Florissants It was an event: in 1989, Jean-Baptiste Lully’s shimmering opera Atys arrived at BAM. The ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Museum piece or inspired revival? When the Opéra Comique staged Lully’s fourth opera in January 1987, the event ...

The lavish production of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Atys" (1676) that the conductor/impressario William Christie and his ensemble Les Arts Florissants brought to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1989 was ...

In the mid-1600s, a young Italian arrived in Paris and soon transformed the still-evolving art form of opera into something quintessentially French. More than three hundred years later, a ...

This performance of Jean-Baptiste Lully's renowned opera +Atys by the Opera Comique was recorded in 1987, and features such greats as Bernard Richter, Stephanie d'Oustrac, Emmanuelle de Negri, and ...

There's a certain type of arts nostalgia that glorifies the past so much that it puts a damper on what's happening now. It's in statements like: "Back in the 60s/70s/80s, oh, that's when ...