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The Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School present a semi-staged concert performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Armide,the second co-production between the two arts institutions. Armide premiered in Paris in 1777. Despite its reputation as one of Gluck’s finest works, the Met has only presented it in 1910 and 1912. Gluck’s Armide is based on Torquato Tasso’s 16th-century epic poem Jerusalem Delivered, which also served as inspiration for operas by Lully, Handel, Vivaldi, Rossini, and Dvořák, among others. The essential story is the same in all the operatic adaptations: the sorceress Armide seduces a Christian knight with witchcraft and trickery, but ends up falling in love with him. When he awakens from the spell and does not reciprocate her affection, she flies into a destructive rage. Tickets & Information.