Lully considered Roland his best opera. It certainly contains some of his best music, but the story is insubstantial and over-extended.
Tag: Jean-Baptiste Lully
113. Amadis (Lully)
For the first time, French opera leaves Greek heroes and gods for mediaeval romance.
110. Persée (Lully)
Quinault petrifies the Greek myths, as if with the Gorgon's head, into bland and predictable court entertainment.


