The Classical legend of Cupid and Psyche is Sandy’s subject this week, as retold for the aristocratic Parisian audiences of the 1670s by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Psyché is a score brimming with power and pathos, but it has plenty of charm and balletic energy too. As well as charting Psyché’s journey to hell and back, Sandy examines Lully’s own remarkable course through life: from his improbable beginnings as a Florentine miller’s son to his foothold in – or stranglehold on – all of French opera at the time of Louis XIV.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 19th April, 4pm-4.30pm