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While often performed as a stand-alone concert piece today, the “Flower Duet” is part of “Lakmé,” a French opera composed by Léo Delibes, first performed in 1883. This is perhaps the Romantic composer ...

About the Opera: Set in India during the British Raj, Lakmé tells the story of a devout young woman torn between worlds of love and hate, forgiveness and revenge. When British officer Gérald stumbles ...

“Lakme” looks to have it all. The 1883 work by French composer Leo Delibes possesses all the grand opera elements – an exotic setting, forbidden love, sworn vengeance, conflicts between cultures and ...

"The music will move people," he says. "It’s opera at its best in terms of the scale — huge, fantastic sets and costumes. it’s really lush. That’s the Calgary Opera’s production of French composer’s ...

AN ORIENTAL fantasy set during the days of the British Raj in India, Lakme is best known for the Flower Duet that became a theme tune for British Airways advertisements. Leo Delibes’s 1883 opera was a ...

This faithful production of Delibes’s rarely staged 19th-century opera exposes weaknesses in his writing but is lifted by solid performances all round Delibes’s Lakmé has notched more than 1,600 ...