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.
Original poster
Jean-Alexandre Talazac as Gérald
Opéra-Comique, 2017
Les pêcheurs de perles
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Les pêcheurs de perles is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. It was premiered on 30 September 1863 at the Théâtre Lyrique in
Lakmé
…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". Following its…
Final scene of act 1 (La Scala, 1886)
From left to right: Giuseppe De Luca (Zurga), Frieda Hempel (Leila) and Enrico Caruso (Nadir), in the New York Met 1916 production
Michel Carré
Théâtre Lyrique (centre right), Paris, where Les pêcheurs de perles received its first performance on 30 September 1863