Lully’s Armide
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Lully’s *Armide* is a seminal 1686 French Baroque opera (tragédie en musique) renowned for its richly expressive music, psychological depth, and enduring influence on later operatic treatments of the Armida story.
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| Lully’s Armide canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9670694 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lully’s Armide Context triple: [Armide, influencedBy, Lully’s Armide]
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Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)
Hippolyte et Aricie is a 1733 tragédie lyrique by Jean-Philippe Rameau, based on Racine’s Phèdre and renowned for its innovative orchestration and harmonic daring in the French Baroque opera repertoire.
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B.
Les Indes galantes (Rameau)
Les Indes galantes is a 1735 opéra-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau that combines exotic-themed dance, vocal music, and spectacle, and is considered one of the composer’s most celebrated stage works.
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C.
Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck
"Alceste" by Christoph Willibald Gluck is an 18th-century opera that exemplifies his reformist style, emphasizing dramatic integrity and expressive simplicity over virtuosic display.
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D.
L'Orfeo
L'Orfeo is a pioneering early Baroque opera by Claudio Monteverdi, often regarded as one of the first great masterpieces of the operatic repertoire.
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E.
Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Iphigénie en Aulide
Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera *Iphigénie en Aulide* is an 18th-century French tragédie lyrique that reimagines the Greek myth of Iphigenia with Gluck’s reformist emphasis on dramatic expression and musical simplicity.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lully’s Armide Target entity description: Lully’s *Armide* is a seminal 1686 French Baroque opera (tragédie en musique) renowned for its richly expressive music, psychological depth, and enduring influence on later operatic treatments of the Armida story.
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A.
Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)
Hippolyte et Aricie is a 1733 tragédie lyrique by Jean-Philippe Rameau, based on Racine’s Phèdre and renowned for its innovative orchestration and harmonic daring in the French Baroque opera repertoire.
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B.
Les Indes galantes (Rameau)
Les Indes galantes is a 1735 opéra-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau that combines exotic-themed dance, vocal music, and spectacle, and is considered one of the composer’s most celebrated stage works.
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C.
Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck
"Alceste" by Christoph Willibald Gluck is an 18th-century opera that exemplifies his reformist style, emphasizing dramatic integrity and expressive simplicity over virtuosic display.
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D.
L'Orfeo
L'Orfeo is a pioneering early Baroque opera by Claudio Monteverdi, often regarded as one of the first great masterpieces of the operatic repertoire.
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E.
Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Iphigénie en Aulide
Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera *Iphigénie en Aulide* is an 18th-century French tragédie lyrique that reimagines the Greek myth of Iphigenia with Gluck’s reformist emphasis on dramatic expression and musical simplicity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Baroque opera
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opera ⓘ |
| basedOn | Jerusalem Delivered NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Torquato Tasso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogueNote | one of Lully’s last operas ⓘ |
| century | 17th century ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Louis XIV’s court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Jean-Baptiste Lully NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
airs
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ballets ⓘ choruses ⓘ recitatives ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| dramaticFocus | psychological depth of the heroine ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceCompany | Académie Royale de Musique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | tragédie lyrique ⓘ |
| hasPrologue | allegorical prologue praising Louis XIV ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
model for later Armida operas
ⓘ
seminal work of French Baroque opera ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Armide
NERFINISHED
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later French tragédie lyrique ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| librettist | Philippe Quinault NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | French Baroque ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Armide
NERFINISHED
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Hidraot NERFINISHED ⓘ La Haine (Hatred) NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableScene | Armide’s monologue “Enfin, il est en ma puissance” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orchestrationFeature | richly expressive orchestral writing ⓘ |
| originalAudience | French royal court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalInstitution | Académie Royale de Musique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performancePractice |
includes divertissements with dance
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uses French overture ⓘ |
| period | Baroque ⓘ |
| premiereCity | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1686-02-15 ⓘ |
| premierePlace | Académie Royale de Musique, Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | First Crusade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | prologue and five acts ⓘ |
| subject |
Armida
NERFINISHED
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Rinaldo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
love versus duty
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magic and enchantment ⓘ psychological conflict ⓘ |
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