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The flower duet12/16/2023 Mallika leaves Lakmé for a while while alone Lakmé sees Gérald and, frightened by the foreigner's incursion, cries out for help. He spots Lakmé and Mallika returning and hides. The British girls see the jewellery and, impressed with it, request sketches of it Gérald volunteers to stay and make sketches of the jewellery. Two British officers, Frederic and Gérald (Delibes uses Frenchified versions of the then common English names Frederick and Gerald), arrive nearby on a picnic with two British girls and their governess. As they approach the water at the river bank, Lakmé removes her jewellery and places it on a bench. Nilakantha's daughter Lakmé, and her servant Mallika, are left behind and go down to the river to gather flowers where they sing together the Flower Duet. The Hindus go to perform their rites in a sacred Brahmin temple under the high priest, Nilakantha. Opéra-Comique, 2017 Place: India Time: Late nineteenth century, during the British Raj. A series of performances took place at the Théâtre Gaîté Lyrique Paris in 1908, with Alice Verlet, David Devriès and Félix Vieuille. Performance history įollowing its premiere at the Opéra Comique in 1883, Lakmé reached its 500th performance there on 23 June 1909 and 1,000th on. Lakmé combines many orientalist aspects that were popular at the time: an exotic location, similar to other French operas of the period, such as Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles and Massenet's Le roi de Lahore, a fanatical priest, mysterious Hindu rituals, and "the novelty of exotically colonial English people". The opera's most famous aria is the "Bell Song" ("L'Air des clochettes") in act 2. The name Lakmé is the French rendition of Sanskrit Lakshmi, the name of the Hindu Goddess of Wealth. The opera includes the popular Flower Duet ("Sous le dôme épais") for a soprano and mezzo-soprano, performed in act 1 by Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant Mallika. Gondinet proposed it as a vehicle for the American soprano Marie van Zandt. Set in British India in the mid-19th century, Lakmé is based on Théodore Pavie's story "Les babouches du Brahmane" and the novel Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti. The score, written from 1881 to 1882, was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra-Comique at the (second) Salle Favart in Paris, with stage decorations designed by Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (act 1), Eugène Carpezat and (Joseph-)Antoine Lavastre (act 2), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (act 3). Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.
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