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Lully: Acis Et Galatee
Jean-Francois Lombard, Elena Harsanyi, Valeria La Grotta, Luigi de Donato, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Markus van Arsdale, Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Benjamin Lazar
Having been granted unprecedented authority by Louis XIV, the Sun King, no one could stage operas in France without Jean-Baptiste Lully’s permission. By 1686, however, Lully’s authority was waning and his long-standing librettist deserted him to write sacred works. Despite these setbacks, Lully wrote Acis et Galatee, a pastorale heroïque, and one of his final masterpieces. Its plot – the cyclops Poliphème’s love for the nymph Galatee – drew from Lully an astonishing alternation of effects, a profound monologue for the nymph in Act III and a magnificent concluding Passacaille, all framed by a succession of dances and vividly conceived choruses.
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