🎶🎭 Watch this glorious production of Lully's Atys made in 2011 with Les Arts Florissants - William Christie! This Baroque gem was the Sun King Louis XIV's favorite "tragédie en musique"! 🎶🎭 https://cutt.ly/zUtahqO | medici.tv

[BIRTHDAY] 🎶🎂 French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully was born on this day 388 years ago, and his works are emblematic of the Sun King's reign. Watch maestro Jordi Savall conduct Lully's Jubilate Deo «Le Motet de la Paix» (LWV 77/16), in Versailles. 🎶🎂 https://rebrand.ly/Lully_Savall | medici.tv

Our Principal Timpani, Adrian Bending tells the story of French Baroque composer Lully’s rather tragic, stick-y end. | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

88K views · 1.3K reactions | Did you know that the Sun King, Louis XIV himself starred in the ballet numbers written by Lully for Cavalli's Hercules (Ercole amante)? A true Baroque celebration where grandiose mythology meets the allegory equating Hercules with the Sun King and the goddess Hebe with his new bride. In this production from David Alden, watch Luca Pisaroni in the title role in "Quel grand’eroe", available in full on medici.tv. https://bit.ly/4cxwls4 | medici.tv | Facebook