Armide at Theater an der Wien

The opera Armide represents the last collaboration between Jean-Baptiste Lully and librettist Philippe Quinault and is at the same time as one of its most successful. Quinault made use of for this purpose a substance from Torquato
Tassos epic Gerusalemme Liberata La: Armide, the niece of the King Hidraot of Damascus, has magical powers, which they successfully used in the fight against the enemy crusader army. Against her will, but she falls in love with the knight Renaud. First, she manages to ensnare him, but can he solve his friends from the love spell. Humiliated and desperate destroyed Armide her palace and hunts in a chariot through the sky it.