Armide
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Armide is the French and English form of the name Armida, a witch in Torquato Tasso's epic poem "Jerusalem Delivered" (1580). The sequence of the poem recounting her love affair with the Christian knight Renaud (Rinaldo) inspired many operas, including:
- Armide by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1686)
- Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel (1711)
- Armide by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1777)
Operas with similar names and the same basic story line:
- Armida by Antonio Salieri (1771)
- Armida by Joseph Haydn (1784)
- Armida by Gioacchino Rossini (1817)
- Armida by Antonín Dvořák (1904)
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