Article: Psyche.

Jean-Baptiste Lully

CPO: 777 367-2

Jean-Baptists Lully's 1678 tragedie lyrique, psyche, is the third Boston Early Music Festival opera production to be released on CPO. The first two--Conradi's Ariadne and Lully's Thesee--received well-deserved Grammy nominations for Best Opera Recording in 2005 and 2007 respectively. This recent Psyche, beautifully recorded by a team from Radio Breme, following a series of staged performances at last year's festival, should yield another nomination.

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Corneille's libretto centres on Psyche, a mortal who has offended the goddess Venus with her great beauty, Crying out that Psyche ...

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