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On, Rossini's Armida was performed and broadcast live to theaters around the world in the series MetLive in HD.

Armida e Rinaldo (1786) by Giuseppe Sarti.

Armide (1777) by Christoph Willibald von Gluck.

Armida abbandonata (1770) by Niccolò Jommelli.

Armida al campo d'Egitto (1718) by Antonio Vivaldi.

Rinaldo (1711) by George Frideric Handel.

Rinaldo and Armida (1698) by John Dennis.

Armida abbandonata (1627) by Claudio Monteverdi (lost).

The story of Armida and Rinaldo has been the basis for a number of operas: She occupies a place in the literature of abandoned women such as the tragic Dido, who committed suicide, and the evil Circe, whom Odysseus abandoned to return home, but she is considered by many to be more human and thus more compelling and sympathetic than either of them.Īrmida by Jacques Blanchard, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes. In some versions, Armida is converted to Christianity, in others, she rages and destroys her own enchanted garden. The works that resulted often added or subtracted an element Tasso himself continued to edit the story for years.

Many painters and composers were inspired by Tasso's tale. She gives in at this and like the other Saracen woman, Clorinda, earlier in the piece, becomes a Christian and his "handmaid". At the close of the poem, when the pagans have lost the final battle, Rinaldo, remembering his promise to be her champion, prevents her from giving way to her suicidal impulses and offers to restore her to her lost throne.

Rinaldo barely can resist Armida's pleadings, but his comrades insist that he return to his Christian duties. Eventually Charles and Ubaldo, two of his fellow Crusaders, find him and hold a shield to his face, so he can see his image and remember who he is. She creates an enchanted garden where she holds him a lovesick prisoner. Armida has been sent to stop the Christians from completing their mission and is about to murder the sleeping soldier, but instead she falls in love. In Tasso's epic Jerusalem Delivered (Italian: Gerusalemme liberata), Rinaldo is a fierce and determined warrior who is also honorable and handsome. The Rose from Armida's Garden by Marie Spartali Stillman (1894)