“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 ...

Students in the opera program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts will present “Lakme” at the school’s Performing Art Center on Jan. 30 and Feb. 1, 6 and 8 The production, staged by veteran director ...

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Set Daily Express as a 'Preferred Source' to get quicker access to the news you value. Leo Delibes’s 1883 opera was a hit in France, but is rarely seen in England, although Opera Holland Park must ...

Ten years ago, the Spoleto Festival got some good news. Repeated and acrimonious disagreements between the festival's octogenarian founder, the composer Gian Carlo Menotti, and the Spoleto board of ...

Citizens and guests of the Bulgarian capital will be able to enjoy for three nights Leo Delibes' opera “Lakme” in the park of the G.S.Rakovski National Military Academy in September. The culture event ...

Natalie Dessay poses during a portrait session in Paris, France on 09/26/2018 Source: Eric Fougere/Corbis via Getty Images VIVA! Opera is a biweekly content broadcast on Tuesdays. In the 11th episode, ...

Exoticism was part and parcel of French Grand Opera in the late 19th century. Léo Delibes found inspiration in India for Lakmé, a story of a Hindu princess who falls in love with a British soldier and ...

(From right to left) Soprano Beate Ritter, who plays the role of Lakme, tenor Zhang Long, who plays the role of Gerald and baritone Pierre Doyen, playing Gerald's friend, during the rehearsal. [Photo ...

Leo Delibes’s 1883 opera was a hit in France, but is rarely seen in England, although Opera Holland Park must have a soft spot for Lakme, having first staged it in 2007. The new production is directed ...