In 1993, Fleming sang the role of Alaide in Bellini's La straniera with the Opera Orchestra of New York, made her debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in the title role of Rossini's Armida, and her debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago in the title role of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah.

In 1996, Fleming sang the title role in Rossini's Armida at the Pesaro Festival, the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the Met, and the soprano solos in the Verdi Requiem with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Ca

During the 2009 / 2010 Metropolitan Opera season Fleming sang the Marschallin and in Mary Zimmerman's new production, the first at the Met, of Rossini's Armida, a role and production she will return to during the Met's 2010 / 2011 Season along with the Gräfin in Richard Strauss's Capriccio.

Almost all of his operas were successful until a disastrous production of Armida that took place at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan for the carnival season of 1780.

Nearly all were successful at their first performances until the diasaster of Armida at La Scala during carnival of 1780.

Landor was the son of Charles Savage Landor and his wife Esmerelda Armida Piselli, and spent his childhood in Florence where he was educated at the Liceo Dante and the Instituto Technico.

He contributed to the society's exhibitions upwards of three hundred portraits and other works, among them being " The Enchantress Armida ", exhibited in 1831 ; " Haidee aroused from her Trance by the sound of Music ", 1834 ; " Eros ", 1836 ; " Italian Boys playing at the National Game of Mora " and the " Prisoner of Chillon ", 1837 ; " The Scene in St. Peter's, Rome, from Byron's Deformed Transformed ", 1839 ; " The Convent of St. Isidore: the Monks giving away provisions ", 1841 ; and a " Scene in a Spanish Posada in Andalusia ", 1843.

Rossini, for instance, had recourse to a baritenor as a lover in Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra, at a time when his company included two major singers of that type, and also for Torvaldo e Dorliska and Armida, where, beside the amatory protagonist, Rinaldo, created by the very prince of Rossini baritenors, Andrea Nozzari, there appear additionally five or six baritonal tenors in secondary roles.

Elsewhere in 1988, Anderson focused on Rossini roles: playing her first Armida in Aix-en-Provence, appearing in Otello at the Pesaro Festival, and debuting as Anna in Maometto II ( an early version of Rossini's Le siège de Corinthe ) at the San Francisco Opera ( she had previously recorded this work with Samuel Ramey in 1983 ).

Armida tries to kill the greatest Christian knight Rinaldo ( his name appears in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso ( III, 30 ); he is the son of Bertoldo and was the reputed founder of the house of Este ) but she falls in love with him instead and takes him away to a magical island where he becomes infatuated with her caresses and grows idle.

His opera ' Rinaldo and Armida ' has recently been published in the Recent Researches of the Music of the Baroque Era series ( A-R Editions ), edited by Steven Plank.

He had also sent back some of his own works, including a portrait ( 1623 ) of himself with Endymion Porter, one of Charles's agents, a mythology ( Rinaldo and Armida, 1629, now in the Baltimore Museum of Art ), and a religious work for the Queen.

Rinaldo and Armida, François Boucher's morceau de réception, gained his admission to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture | Académie royale in 1734.

* Giuseppe Sarti – Armida e Rinaldo

* Rinaldo and Armida ( 1698 )

* Rinaldo in Armida by Josef Mysliveček ( Milan, 1780 )

* Rinaldo in Armida abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli ( Naples, 1780 )

Even in a more intimate scene such as Rinaldo & Armida, instead of depicting the focused scene between two lovers, love itself has to be allegorized as an intruding, hovering cupid.

Rinaldo and Armida, by Francois Boucher, 1734 ; this painting gained Boucher entrance to the Academie ( Louvre Museum )

), Luísa gave her first concert, performing Giuseppe Sarti's Armida and Rinaldo.

In addition, Farnese commissioned various oil paintings from Carracci, including his Rinaldo and Armida now in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.

Rinaldo and Armida, by François Boucher.

Two Christian knights seek out the hidden fortress, brave the dangers that guard it and, by giving Rinaldo a mirror of diamond, force him to see himself in his effeminated and amorous state and to return to the war, leaving Armida heartbroken.

Rinaldo then begs her to convert to Christianity, and Armida, her heart softened, gives her consent.

* Amori di Rinaldo con Armida by Teofilo Orgiani ( Brescia, 1697 ) music lost

* Das eroberte Jerusalem, oder Armida und Rinaldo by Georg Caspar Schurmann ( Brunswick, 1722 )

* Gian Battista Tiepolo Rinaldo leaves Armida, Villa Valmarana, Vicenza

The sequence of the poem recounting her love affair with the Christian knight Renaud ( Rinaldo ) inspired many operas, which are listed under the names of their respective composers in the article Armida.

Highlights of the European art exhibit include Sir Anthony van Dyck's Rinaldo and Armida ( 1629 ) which was commissioned by King Charles I of England.

Rinaldo and Armida Watched by two Soldiers, c. 1750-55

His most successful operas in Russia were Armida e Rinaldo and The Early Reign of Oleg ( Nachal ' noye upravleniye Olega ), for the latter of which the empress herself wrote the libretto.

The story of Armida, a Saracen sorceress and Rinaldo, a soldier in the First Crusade, was created by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso.

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.

Significant portions of the writings of the Venerable Concepcion Cabrera de Armida were reported as having been based on her adorations of the Blessed Sacrament

Cabrera de Armida did not represent her writings as interior locutions or visions of Jesus and Mary but as her meditations and inspirations during Eucharistic adoration.

The witch Armida ( modeled on Circe in Homer and the witch Alcina in Ariosto's epic ) enters the Christian camp asking for their aid ; her seductions divide the knights against each other and a group leaves with her, only to be transformed into animals by her magic.

Significant portions of the writings of the Venerable Concepcion Cabrera de Armida were reported as having been based on her adorations of the Blessed Sacrament

In some versions, Armida is converted to Christianity, in others, she rages and destroys her own enchanted garden.

Though her voice soon began to show signs of strain, Colbran continued to have a fertile career, creating the roles of Armida ( Armida ), Elcia ( Mosè in Egitto ), Zoraide ( Ricciardo e Zoraide ), Ermione ( Ermione ), Elena ( La donna del lago ), Anna ( Maometto II ), and Zelmira ( Zelmira ), all written by Rossini for Naples.

In 2005 her opera Armida, an opera for television, premiered on Channel Four in the United Kingdom ).

:“ Arditi all ’ ire ”, Allegretto innocente ( Armida )