OPERADELAWARE 2015 Festival

 

Lakmé

May 8 | 7:30 pm, the baby grand
May 16 | 2:00 pm, the baby grand   

Why do opera lovers say Lakmé sounds so fresh at each new performance?

Is it the achingly beautiful Flower Duet — one of the most haunting in all opera? Or the spectacular Bell Song — the career-maker for countless coloraturas?

Is it the innocent daughter of a Brahmin priest? Is it her love for a British Officer whose ignorance causes her to shame her people? Is it the Brahmin’s hatred of his conquerors that propels the lovers into the poignant embrace of death-by-poisoned flowers?

Close your eyes. And let Leo Delibes’ masterpiece give you all the answers you need.

 
 

Performers

Soloists

Lakmé | Sharon Cheng
Gerald | Ryan Macpherson
Nilakantha | Peter Tomaszewski
Ellen | Sharin Apostolou
Miss Benson | Melissa Kornacki
Pianist | James Harp

The OperaDelaware Chorus

Conductor | Anthony Barrese
Preparer | Jeffrey Miller

 

Learn More

 

Lakme by Leo Delibes Very bright, colorful version + eng subs =) what a luck The Sydney Opera House Conductor: Richard Bonynge Director: Norman Ayrton The Australian Opera Chorus The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra 1976 Joan Sutherland as Lakme Isobel Buchanan Huguette Tourangeau Jennifer Bermingham Rosina Raisbeck Henry Wilden Graeme Ewer John Pringle Clifford Grand

Lakmé Overture

(Performed by The Australian Opera Chorus.)

Lakmé, Flower duet (Duetto) by Léo Delibes : Viens, Mallika... Dôme épais le jasmin. http://www.agoravox.tv http://www.agoravox.tv/auteur/juasugi http://www.agoravox.tv/auteur/stupeur http://www.agoravox.fr Anna Netrebko (soprano). Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano). Baden-Baden Opera Gala 2007. Duo des fleurs.

Flower Duet
This is a famous duet for sopranos, first performed in Paris in 1883. The duet takes place in act 1, between characters Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant Mallika, as they go to gather flowers by a river.

(Performed by Anna Netrebko & Elina Garanca.)

January 2008. SWR "Music Debut", Dirigent Christoph Poppen, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern Julia Novikova. Delibe, Lakme, "Bell Song"

The Bell Song
In the village town square, Lakmé tells the legend of a pariah's daughter who saved the son of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu.

(Performed by Julia Novikova.)