Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The revival of Lully's 'Atys' at Palace of Versailles (Baptiste Lacaze) The Palace of Versailles has always been about artifice.

The Palace of Versailles has always been about artifice. Nothing is quite true, its spectacle invented and reinvented for its age. Ironically, in our days of access and equality, it is probably far ...

It was with Atys, staged and recorded in 1987 by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants to mark the tercentenary of the composer’s death, that the modern revival of Lully’s operas really got going.

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Like Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique are working their way through the operas of Lully. Rousset’s recording of Atys appeared recently (4/24); here, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The opera house in the palace is as artificial as any of Louis’s propaganda. It was added shortly before the revolution, not for ...