Lakmé
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Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.
Key facts
- Opera.name
- Lakmé
- Opera.composer
- Léo Delibes
- Opera.image
- Poster for the première of Léo Delibes' Lakmé - Original.jpg
- Opera.image_upright
- 1.2
- Opera.caption
- Original poster
- Opera.language
- French
- Opera.based_on
- Théodore Pavie's story "Les babouches du Brahmane" and Pierre Loti's novel Le Mariage de Loti
- Opera.premiere_location
- Opéra-Comique, Paris
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Genre
- opéra comique
- Composer
- Léo Delibes
- Narrative location
- British Raj
- Librettist
- Philippe Gille
- Image
- Poster for the première of Léo Delibes' Lakmé - Original.jpg
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- form of creative work
- opera
- Commons category
- Lakmé (Delibes)
- date of first performance
- 1883-04-14
- title
- Lakmé
- number of parts of this work
- 3
- set in period
- 19th century
- language of work or name
- French
- location of first performance
- Opéra-Comique
- publication date
- 1850-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Performance history
- Roles
- Synopsis
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Music
- Musical numbers
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Cultural references
- Recordings
- Audio
- Video
- References
- External links
Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.
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). Set in British India in the mid-19th century, Lakmé is based on Théodore Pavie's story "Les babouches du Brahmane" (1849) and the novel '''' (1880) by Pierre Loti. Gondinet proposed it as a vehicle for the American soprano Marie van Zandt. The opera's most famous aria is the "Bell Song" ("''L'Air des clochettes") in act 2.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lakmé” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.