Léo Delibes, Lakmé, Act I: "Dôme épais, le jasmin" (Lakmé, Mallika). N. Dessay & D. Haidan

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Ewa w górach przed pustelnią Brata Alberta na Kalatówkach / Ewa in the mountains (in front of Brother Albert's hermitage in Kalatówki ~ Tatry, Poland) and also in the (Baltic) sea. She is thinking.
... And in the background: Léo Delibes, Lakmé, Act I: "Dôme épais, le jasmin" (Lakmé, Mallika). /And Freud.😀/
~ Conductor: Michel Plasson
Vocals: Delphine Haidan (mezzo) & Natalie Dessay (soprano).
Orchestra: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.
Poet: Edmond Gondinet.
Sound 1600 kbps.
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Léo Delibes, in full Clément-Philibert-Léo Delibes, (born February 21, 1836, Saint-Germain-du-Val, France—died January 16, 1891, Paris), French opera and ballet composer who was the first to write music of high quality for the ballet. His pioneering symphonic work for the ballet opened up a field for serious composers, and his influence can be traced in the work of Tchaikovsky and others who wrote for the dance. His own music—light, graceful, elegant, with a tendency toward exoticism—reflects the spirit of the Second Empire in France.

Delibes also wrote church music (he had worked as a church organist) and some picturesque songs, among which “Les Filles de Cadiz” (“The Girls of Cadiz”) suggests the style of Georges Bizet.

Delibes studied at the Paris Conservatoire under the influential opera composer Adolphe Adam and in 1853 became accompanist at the Théâtre-Lyrique. He became accompanist at the Paris Opéra in 1863, professor of composition at the Conservatoire in 1881, and a member of the French Institute in 1884. His first produced works were a series of amusing operettas, parodies, and farces in which Delibes was associated with Jacques Offenbach and other light-opera composers.

He collaborated with Ludwig Minkus in the ballet La Source (1866), and its success led to commissions to write his large-scale ballets, Coppélia (1870), based on a story of E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Sylvia (1876), based on a mythological theme. In the meantime, he developed his gifts for opera. The opéra comique Le Roi l’a dit (1873; The King Said So) was followed by the serious operas Jean de Nivelle (1880) and Lakmé (1883), his masterpiece. Known for its coloratura aria “Bell Song,” Lakmé contains “Oriental” scenes illustrated with music of a novel, exotic character. Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Emotion of the highest order 💓 Adam (Brother Albert) Chmielowski 💓 (1845 –1916). Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ4w_MFnCss
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