Lakmé
Sign in to saveLakmé 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
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- Act 1
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- Act 3
- Music
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- Act 1
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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.