Jean-Baptiste Lully: Cadmus & Hermione - tragedie lyrique de Lully et Quinault [DVD Video]

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Most probably the event of the year. Three years after Le Poeme Harmonique's DVD of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Lully and Moliere, which sold at over 20 000 copies over the world (of which 90 % in francophone countries), the team led by Vincent Dumestre (musical direction) and Benjamin Lazar (stage management) will produce Cadmus et Hermione, the very first French opera, composed
in 1673 by Lully on a libretto by Quinault. With its reconstructed sets and costumes, machinery, body language and pronunciation, and entirely candle-lit, this production ought to become a landmark in the rediscovery of baroque opera. It will also be a unique opportunity to discover a musical masterpiece fallen in oblivion over the last three centuries.