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Lully's Operas in the 1670s
In the 1670s, Italian-born composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, with Louis XIV's backing, directed the Académie Royale de Musique and established tragédie e…
Timeline
- 1672–1674Paris (Académie Royale de Musique) · ParisLully received from Louis XIV a monopoly on opera composition, and the Académie Royale de Musique became the sole legally authorized producer of French opera, laying the institutional foundation for the continuous creations and productions of the 1670s.
- 1676–1677Saint-Germain-en-Laye / Paris · Île-de-FranceAtys displayed Lully's mature style through a mythological theme of love and death; Isis continued the court ceremonial tradition with an Egyptian subject; both are exemplary five-act tragédies en musique.
- 1678–1679Paris (Académie Royale de Musique) · ParisPsyché (1678) and Bellerophon (1679) continued Lully's collaboration with playwrights, marking the close of his creative peak of the 1670s; by this point the genre of French opera had fully matured.
Sources
- Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque — James R. Anthony (1981)
- Atys — Jean-Baptiste Lully (1676) https://imslp.org/wiki/Atys_(Lully,_Jean-Baptiste)