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“Armide, the Huguenots, and the Hague.”

In the fall of 1701, a new French-language opera company in The Hague opened with a production of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault’s Armide (1686), a choice that can now be confirmed by a libretto (fig. 1).1 Yet the company’s choice of Armide was not self-evident, nor did their production follow that of Paris to…

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