From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The opera house in the palace is as artificial as any of Louis’s propaganda. It was added shortly before the revolution, not for ...

The Palace of Versailles has always been about artifice. Nothing is quite true, its spectacle invented and reinvented for its age. Ironically, in our days of access and equality, it is probably far ...

In this episode we explore how Jean-Baptiste Lully, the towering figure of French Baroque music, met an unexpectedly grim fate: while fiercely conducting his own Te Deum, he stabbed his foot with his ...

TLDR: Tunisian rappers like Sabrina, Medusa, Queen Nesrine, Tuny Girl, and Lully Snake are challenging misogyny and social injustice through politically charged, intersectional hip-hop. Now there are ...

Women rappers were not really a feature of Tunisia’s typically masculine and chauvinist hip-hop scene until the revolution that overthrew Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. Now there are several ...

In the mid-1600s, a young Italian arrived in Paris and soon transformed the still-evolving art form of opera into something quintessentially French. More than three hundred years later, a ...

Led by a hat trick from third-year forward Aalayah Lully, the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Bold women’s soccer team dominated the Laurentian Voyageurs in a 3-0 sweep at Downsview Park on ...

Hannah French is joined in the Early Music Show studio by musicologists Berta Joncus and Lola Salem to explore the life and career of Jean-Baptiste Lully, who shot to fame at the court of King Louis ...