Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Lakmé makes its Missouri debut at Union Avenue Opera August 21, with ...

A good case can be made for a fresh look at "Lakme," the pretty but gossamer-thin French opera that has survived for 120 years mainly because of two gorgeous arias. Yes, it's lightweight, a ...

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 ...

She’s a first cousin to Madame Butterfly; they’re both exotic Easterners who commit suicide over a Westerner with some annoying notions about duty. She’s a second cousin, once removed, to Carmen; they ...

2 Fabisch, Burns, McClure, & More Will Lead DEAR EVAN HANSEN at the Muny 3 Heidi Blickenstaff, John Bolton, and More Will Lead COME FROM AWAY at The Muny 4 Norm Lewis, Michael James Scott, and More ...

This is an opera that outside France has been in need of singers and a not too violent concept to do it justice. At Holland Park second time around – the company’s first production was in 2007 – it ...

French composer Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé will make its Chinese debut at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing. The play, co-produced by the NCPA, the Royal Muscat Opera House, ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Léo Delibes’ 1883 opera “Lakmé” has beautiful melodies and a gorgeous orchestration rich in Orientalisms. That music accompanies ...

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 ...