Armida (Dvořák)

Armida
Opera by Antonín Dvořák
The composer in 1882
LibrettistJaroslav Vrchlický
LanguageCzech
Based onTorquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata
Premiere
25 March 1904 (1904-03-25)
National Theatre, Prague

Armida is an opera by Antonín Dvořák in four acts, set to a libretto by Jaroslav Vrchlický that was originally based on Torquato Tasso's epic La Gerusalemme liberata. Dvořák's opera was first performed at Prague's National Theatre on 25 March 1904; the score was published as Opus 115 in 1941.

While Armida represents the culmination of Dvořák's experimentation with a Wagnerian style of opera composition, much of the music is in Dvořák's personal style. Vrchlický's libretto parallels the one that Philippe Quinault wrote for Jean-Baptiste Lully in their opera of the same name.

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