It’s an ingenious idea: Create an evening-length ballet about the progenitor of ballet, Louis XIV, and his most frequent collaborator, composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. And there was a certain magic to ...

Ballet de la Raillerie, Movements: Overture Risonanza (La) Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer Fabio Bonizzoni, Harpsichord (Le) Bourgeois gentilhomme, Movements: Ballet des Nations Risonanza (La) ...

Lully is so closely associated with French opera at the court of Louis XIV that we tend to forget he was born in Florence, and that he cut his compositional teeth on small-scale Italian-­language ...

Librettist Isaac de Benserade tailored the poetic texts to specific performers, and one of our challenges is to listen with both the sense and the subtext in mind. We’re told who among the king’s ...

Gillian Moore is joined by a roster of distinguished historians for this major new BBC Radio 3 series, charting a course ...