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Armide

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Armide

Opera by Christoph Willibald von Gluck (libretto by Philippe Quinault, based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata), first produced at the Paris Opéra, France, on 23 September 1777. The plot recounts that Armide's intended victim is Renaud, but he escapes her traps.

An earlier version of the opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully (libretto by Philippe Quinault) was first produced at the Paris Opéra on 15 February 1686.



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She had seen Gluck's Armide that year, and played from memory the music of the enchanted garden--the music to which Renaud approaches, beneath the light of an eternal dawn, the music that never gains, never wanes, but ripples for ever like the tideless seas of fairyland.
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