Véronique Gens's recital offers a neat guide to a century of French baroque opera. Her more or less chronological selection of arias, interspersed with orchestral numbers played with their usual ...

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 ...

Ovid's tale of Acis and Galatea is familiar to opera lovers in the sturdy, tuneful and mostly lighthearted version created by George Frideric Handel. But another great musician was also inspired by ...