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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Armide (revision for Paris) | 1 |
| Armide by Jean-Baptiste Lully | 1 |
| 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
ⓘ
opera ⓘ |
| basedOn | Jerusalem Delivered ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Torquato Tasso ⓘ |
| catalogueNote | one of Lully’s last operas ⓘ |
| century | 17th century ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
Louis XIV’s court
ⓘ
linked to:
Court of Louis XIV
|
| composer | Jean-Baptiste Lully ⓘ |
| contains |
airs
ⓘ
ballets ⓘ choruses ⓘ recitatives ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| dramaticFocus | psychological depth of the heroine ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceCompany |
Académie Royale de Musique
ⓘ
linked to:
Académie royale de musique
|
| 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
ⓘ
later French tragédie lyrique ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| librettist | Philippe Quinault ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | French Baroque ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Armide
ⓘ
Hidraot ⓘ La Haine (Hatred) ⓘ
linked to:
La Haine
Renaud ⓘ |
| notableScene |
Armide’s monologue “Enfin, il est en ma puissance”
ⓘ
linked to:
Armide
|
| orchestrationFeature | richly expressive orchestral writing ⓘ |
| originalAudience | French royal court ⓘ |
| originalInstitution |
Académie Royale de Musique
ⓘ
linked to:
Académie royale de musique
|
| performancePractice |
includes divertissements with dance
ⓘ
uses French overture ⓘ |
| period | Baroque ⓘ |
| premiereCity | Paris ⓘ |
| premiereCountry | France ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1686-02-15 ⓘ |
| premierePlace |
Académie Royale de Musique, Paris
ⓘ
linked to:
Académie royale de musique
|
| setting | First Crusade ⓘ |
| structure | prologue and five acts ⓘ |
| subject |
Armida
ⓘ
Rinaldo ⓘ
linked to:
Armide
|
| theme |
love versus duty
ⓘ
magic and enchantment ⓘ psychological conflict ⓘ |
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Subject: Lully’s Armide Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (3)
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linked to: Lully’s Armide
linked to: Lully’s Armide